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"The Breast is Best" campaign.

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Media Influences 1 year 18 weeks ago

I teach a class for the University of Phoenix titled, “Media Influences on American Culture.” Throughout this course, I am constantly asking my students to ponder whether media is acting upon them or do they act independent of media’s influence in society. The recent shooting in Arizona, the media’s coverage of it, and society’s reactions to this coverage has shown how many people in America by the different influences of our media, are acted upon.

Why is America so obsessed with being skinny? 3 years 3 weeks ago

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Donald Trump Denies Racism: "I Have Black Friends" 1 year 2 weeks ago

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Fear Mongering In America! American Media Spreading Fear! 1 year 9 weeks ago

We should all be worried because big business is bucking harder than ever. Right now the radical media outlets are throwing everything at Americans that they can come up with. They are taking the old ideas proposed by the far left back in the Bush years. Like we are going to be put in concentration camps, and projecting them onto the American people yet again. So now no matter what your political affiliation is you are being told that concentration camps are being built in America, for us the citizens of America.