Does Local Television News Coverage Cultivate Fatalistic Beliefs About Cancer Prevention?

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/79095/1/j.1460-2466.2009.01474.x.pd

Reporting and the Transformations of the Journalistic Field: US news media, 1890-2000

How have journalistic ideals of public service arisen? To what extent do journalists live up to these ideals? Can we make any claims as to the social conditions that this performance depends on? Using Bourdieu’s theory of fields of cultural production, this article addresses these questions with evidence from the history of journalism in the United States. What is most distinctive about modern journalism is a specific practice: active news-gathering or reporting. This practice became common in the 1860s and 1870s with the emergence of journalism as a field with its own stakes, relatively independent from political advantage or literary merit. The power of field-specific capital to organize practices in the media has varied since then. The field consolidated in the era from 1890 to 1914, with the newspaper industry expanding. In the interwar years, the boundary between PR and journalism became blurry and the institutional basis for active news-gathering declined. Under favorable economic and political conditions reporting practices, including local and investigative reporting, flourished between 1945 and1970 across media forms. In the past 40 years the importance of active news-gathering has declined

Assessing the Role of Local Television News in Elections: Stimulating Involvement or Indifference

In examining the news media\u27s role in the American political system, Robert Entman argued that while the media can wield the power to alter public policy and cripple presidencies, they have not been able to harness that power to serve democratic citizenship and promote government accountability as free press ideals demand. The problem, as Entman and others have noted, lies in the conflict between the need to maintain the profitability of news organizations and their ability to inform citizens adequately about policy problems and solutions. This conflict is particularly strong in the coverage of politics and elections

Advanced airborne defensive laser for incorporation on strike fighter aircraft

Systems Engineering Capstone Project ReportThis report is a technical and operational analysis of an airborne hard-kill laser-based anti-missile system for use on strike fighters. The analysis begins with a set of requirements and a concept of operations showing the function of the Advanced Airborne Defensive Laser (AADL). These concepts are developed into a generalized functional, physical, and allocated architecture for the system. Research was then done into current and near-future technologies to create alternative configurations. The combat performance of these alternatives was simulated using physics- and discrete-event-based modeling. This simulated performance and other factors were scored to develop recommendations for technologies to be incorporated into the design. For power supply, we recommend the use of the Next Generation Jammer’s ram air turbine (called the HiRAT) for airborne power generation. Lithium-ion batteries are recommended for power storage. The recommended technology for the tracking system is the F-35’s Distributed Aperture System. Finally, the recommended laser technology is the Ytterbium fiber laser.http://archive.org/details/advancedirborned1094556174Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Preventing pirates from boarding commercial vessels - a systems approach

Piracy represents a serious threat to modern maritime traffic, causing significant financial losses as well as loss of life. The system’s proposed area of operation is the waters of Indonesia, as current antipiracy solutions are not feasible due to the region’s unique physical geography. Worldwide deployment is possible with minimal modifications. The systems engineering process was used to identify a system that effectively and economically prevents pirates from boarding commercial vessels. A model of the operational environment was developed in MATLAB to run simulations designed to estimate the relative effectiveness of each assessed countermeasure. A cost analysis was performed on the most effective system configurations to determine economic feasibility; the best-value system was recommended. The results of the project indicated that the P-Trap countermeasure, designed to entangle the pirate’s propellers with thin lines, is both effective and economically viable for wide-scale deployment. The further addition of a fire hose system using net projectiles to increase the difficulty of boarders to climb onto the vessel was found to enhance the system effectiveness, while remaining cost-effective.http://archive.org/details/preventingpirate1094543991Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited