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unusual facts about American media



1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing

Diệm claimed that the American media was seeking to bring him down and he introduced new restrictions on press freedom and political association.

Nice Jewish boy stereotype

In Israel and the parts of the diaspora which have received heavy exposure to the American media that deploy the representation, the stereotype has gained popular recognition to a lesser extent.


see also

A+E Networks

A&E Television Networks, LLC (DBA A+E Networks and formerly also known as AETN) is an American media company that owns a group of television channels available via cable & satellite in the US and abroad.

Barry Bingham

Barry Bingham, Jr. (1933–2006), American media executive, son of the above

Boomerang Media

Boomerang Media, L.L.C. is an American media company founded by John Engelman and Eric Ellenbogen (founders of Classic Media) and the private equity firm GTCR in 2008.

Doublespeak

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky note in their book that Orwellian Doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called ‘dichotomization’; a component of media propaganda involving ‘deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news’.

Experimenter

Experimenter Publishing, an American media company founded by Hugo Gernsback

James Faulkner

James H. Faulkner (1916–2008), American media owner, education supporter, industrial recruiter, and politician

Johnson Publishing Company

The company produced the 1954 film The Secret of Selling the Negro Market, which was designed to encourage advertisers to promote their products and services in the African American media.

Red Zebra

Red Zebra Broadcasting, American media corporation and radio station operator

SFX Entertainment

SFX Entertainment is an American media conglomerate founded by media entrepreneur Robert F. X. Sillerman.

Susa y Epifanio

The character was born within "El Derecho de Lavar", a comedy spoof on a particular radio (later television) novela, "El derecho de nacer", whose basic format has been followed as a formula for almost 70 years in Cuban, Puerto Rican, Mexican, and other Latin American media.

Visionaries

Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, an American media franchise marketed in the late 1980s

Whitney Crothers Dilley

Dilley's Ang Lee book was listed as a bestseller on Amazon.com within a month of its publication, demonstrating growing scholarly interest in the films of Ang Lee, whose films Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain both became cultural milestones in the American media.