Reality bites for a lot of people. But the definition of reality is not concrete. After all, some people choose to live in their own realities--they are called fantasies--and many have realities imp...
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We live each day of our lives without questioning the life around us. We have an innate belief, or faith in our world, and our reality. In the film The Truman Show, the lead character, Truman Burbank...
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In the past, before TV and computers and videogames, kids went outside and played sports, rode bikes all day, played soccer, hockey, basketball, and even baseball. Then we wonder why so many kids ar...
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Images are pervading forces that sculpt our attitudes and beliefs about our community, our world and ourselves amply through media production. An image can assist us to enter a different world throu...
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Mankind's existence is futile. It has no purpose, nor does it benefit our planet. Our presence on this planet is unnecessary and it is only furthering in destruction on our home.
We first started of...
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Control is to physically or mentally have power over what someone or something does. But does the media have control over what we do, eat and think? For example, could a speaking chicken drumstick c...
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The creators of Ed TV and The Truman Show express the feeling of losing privacy, love overcoming money, and discovering the lessons of life through the protagonists, the media moguls, and the encompa...
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Journalists, film directors and artists use image to create powerful meanings that can be expressive but also manipulated which has the power to control our sense of image. Today they force us to as...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 3-9:Feb. 3: Comedian Shelley Berman is 82. Actress Blythe Danner is 65. Singer Dennis Edwards (The Temptations) is 65. Guitarist Dave Davies of The Kinks is...
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NFL Hall of Famer cum Fox Sports analyst Howie Long admits that in the thick of the playoffs and all the attendant intensity leading up to the Feb. 3 Super Bowl, "this is the time of year when ever...
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I admire Jim Carrey for always trying to break out of his own cage, the career-challenging attempts to remain rich and famous without boring himself to death and still having self-respect. Handsome...
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