Posts categorized “Media”.

The TV Licence

TV Licences. Everybody loves to hate them. “I never watch the BBC anyway”. “I don’t like what the BBC does” or even “The BBC is only for old people, to keep them from getting bored until they die”. My view somewhat differs: I think the TV licence is one of the best things that ever happened to television, and I offer a few arguments as to why it should stay.

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Did the Media lose the Vietnam War?

This essay will discuss to what degree the media can be blamed for the United States’ loss in the Vietnam conflict ending 1975. It will be based predominantly on key written resources on the subject, but it will also contain - by means of an interview - certain first-hand observations from a Vietnam War veteran.

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Photo editing in print media

This essay will offer an ephemeral outline of the history of image manipulation, before presenting a discussion about the definition of image editing.

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Research methodology for the social sciences

Methodology is the study of methods - in other words, methodology is
the science of understanding what method of conducting research is best applicable
in a certain situation. This article is concerned only with the social sciences: Science that cannot
explicitly be expressed in numbers.

If you, for example, were to find out how many cows there are in Wales, interviewing people on the streets of Tokyo is probably a bad idea. Calling and talking to all the farmers or traveling around and counting them yourself,
would probably be better ideas.


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