We Interrupt This Broadcast

Author : Joe Garner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Disasters
ISBN : 1570713286

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We Interrupt this Broadcast by Joe Garner Pdf

Author : Joe Garner,Bill Kurtis
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781570719745

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We Interrupt this Broadcast by Joe Garner,Bill Kurtis Pdf

An illustrated book and two audio CDs provide actual news broadcasts and background information for 44 events in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Author : Miranda J. Brady,John M.H. Kelly
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774835114

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We Interrupt This Program by Miranda J. Brady,John M.H. Kelly Pdf

We Interrupt This Program tells the story of how Indigenous people are using media tactics or interventions in art, film, television, and journalism to disrupt Canada’s national narratives and rewrite them from Indigenous perspectives. Accounts of strategically chosen moments such as survivor testimonies at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission combined with conversations with CBC reporter Duncan McCue and artists such as Kent Monkman bring to life Brady and Kelly’s powerful argument that media tactics can be employed to change Canadian institutions from within. As articulations of Indigenous sovereignty, these tactics can also spark new forms of political and cultural expression in Indigenous communities.

Author : Amanda D. Lotz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262037679

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We Now Disrupt This Broadcast by Amanda D. Lotz Pdf

The collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced a new golden age of TV. Cable television channels were once the backwater of American television, programming recent and not-so-recent movies and reruns of network shows. Then came La Femme Nikita, OZ, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and The Walking Dead. And then, just as “prestige cable” became a category, came House of Cards and Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, and other Internet distributors of television content. What happened? In We Now Disrupt This Broadcast, Amanda Lotz chronicles the collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced an era termed “peak TV.” Lotz explains that changes in the business of television expanded the creative possibilities of television. She describes the costly infrastructure rebuilding undertaken by cable service providers in the late 1990s and the struggles of cable channels to produce (and pay for) original, scripted programming in order to stand out from the competition. These new programs defied television conventions and made viewers adjust their expectations of what television could be. Le Femme Nikita offered cable's first antihero, Mad Men cost more than advertisers paid, The Walking Dead became the first mass cable hit, and Game of Thrones was the first global television blockbuster. Internet streaming didn't kill cable, Lotz tells us. Rather, it revolutionized how we watch television. Cable and network television quickly established their own streaming portals. Meanwhile, cable service providers had quietly transformed themselves into Internet providers, able to profit from both prestige cable and streaming services. Far from being dead, television continues to transform.

Author : K. K. Beck
Publisher : Mysterious Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759523876

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We Interrupt This Broadcast by K. K. Beck Pdf

Alice Jordan's dentist husband has just run off with his hygienist and she is desperate for a job. Because Alice has done some volunteer work for the symphony, she manages to talk herself into a job as a commissioned ad rep for a Seattle classical music station. The station was kept alive by its wealthy owner for many years, but her heirs are fighting about the future of the station. KLEG is so mismanaged that Alice's predecessor Joe Costello hadn't even bothered to resign. He just disappeared and no one, including his unhappy wife, found it odd that he just drifted away. Cryptic messages had been left on his answering machine and his few accounts had been neglected. A week into the job, Joev?s body is found inside a convertible sofa in a storage area. Alice finds that Joev?s death by misadventure is only the beginning of the mystery.

Author : A. Brad Schwartz
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809031634

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Broadcast Hysteria by A. Brad Schwartz Pdf

On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading force approached Manhattan, some listeners sat transfixed, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call the police. Some even fled their homes. But the hair-raising broadcast was not a real news bulletin-it was Orson Welles's adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic The War of the Worlds. In Broadcast Hysteria, A. Brad Schwartz boldly retells the story of Welles's famed radio play and its impact. Did it really spawn a "wave of mass hysteria," as The New York Times reported? Schwartz is the first to examine the hundreds of letters sent to Orson Welles himself in the days after the broadcast, and his findings challenge the conventional wisdom. Few listeners believed an actual attack was under way. But even so, Schwartz shows that Welles's broadcast became a major scandal, prompting a different kind of mass panic as Americans debated the bewitching power of the radio and the country's vulnerability in a time of crisis. When the debate was over, American broadcasting had changed for good, but not for the better. As Schwartz tells this story, we observe how an atmosphere of natural disaster and impending war permitted broadcasters to create shared live national experiences for the first time. We follow Orson Welles's rise to fame and watch his manic energy and artistic genius at work in the play's hurried yet innovative production. And we trace the present-day popularity of "fake news" back to its source in Welles's show and its many imitators. Schwartz's original research, gifted storytelling, and thoughtful analysis make Broadcast Hysteria a groundbreaking new look at a crucial but little-understood episode in American history.

Author : Joe Garner
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780446554091

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Speed, Guts, and Glory by Joe Garner Pdf

Stockcar racing is fast becoming America's most popular spectator sport, and now bestselling author and broadcasting veteran Joe Garner captures the most important moments in NASCAR history, including: Dale Earnhardt, Senior's triumphant Daytona 500 victory King Richard Petty's 200th victory, with Ronald Reagan in attendance as the first president to attend a NASCAR event Jeff Gordon's amazing dream season The closest finish in NASCAR history - a mere .002 of a second! Dale Earnhardt Junior's Daytona victory - on the one-year anniversary of his father's death on the same speedway.

Author : Daniel Pierre Bovet,Marco Cesati
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0596002130

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Understanding the Linux Kernel by Daniel Pierre Bovet,Marco Cesati Pdf

To thoroughly understand what makes Linux tick and why it's so efficient, you need to delve deep into the heart of the operating system--into the Linux kernel itself. The kernel is Linux--in the case of the Linux operating system, it's the only bit of software to which the term "Linux" applies. The kernel handles all the requests or completed I/O operations and determines which programs will share its processing time, and in what order. Responsible for the sophisticated memory management of the whole system, the Linux kernel is the force behind the legendary Linux efficiency. The new edition of Understanding the Linux Kernel takes you on a guided tour through the most significant data structures, many algorithms, and programming tricks used in the kernel. Probing beyond the superficial features, the authors offer valuable insights to people who want to know how things really work inside their machine. Relevant segments of code are dissected and discussed line by line. The book covers more than just the functioning of the code, it explains the theoretical underpinnings for why Linux does things the way it does. The new edition of the book has been updated to cover version 2.4 of the kernel, which is quite different from version 2.2: the virtual memory system is entirely new, support for multiprocessor systems is improved, and whole new classes of hardware devices have been added. The authors explore each new feature in detail. Other topics in the book include: Memory management including file buffering, process swapping, and Direct memory Access (DMA) The Virtual Filesystem and the Second Extended Filesystem Process creation and scheduling Signals, interrupts, and the essential interfaces to device drivers Timing Synchronization in the kernel Interprocess Communication (IPC) Program execution Understanding the Linux Kernel, Second Edition will acquaint you with all the inner workings of Linux, but is more than just an academic exercise. You'll learn what conditions bring out Linux's best performance, and you'll see how it meets the challenge of providing good system response during process scheduling, file access, and memory management in a wide variety of environments. If knowledge is power, then this book will help you make the most of your Linux system.

Author : H G Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798730539709

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The War of the Worlds Illustrated by H G Wells Pdf

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.

Author : Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1979-10-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262700204

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Architecture and Utopia by Manfredo Tafuri Pdf

Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the workforce and the marketplace. Written from a neo-Marxist point of view by a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the workforce and the marketplace. It discusses the Garden Cities movement and the suburban developments it generated, the German-Russian architectural experiments of the 1920s, the place of the avant-garde in the plastic arts, and the uses and pitfalls of seismological approaches to architecture, and assesses the prospects of socialist alternatives.

Author : Tom Rosenstiel,Marion Just,Todd Belt,Atiba Pertilla,Walter Dean,Dante Chinni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139464635

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We Interrupt This Newscast by Tom Rosenstiel,Marion Just,Todd Belt,Atiba Pertilla,Walter Dean,Dante Chinni Pdf

Local television newscasts around the country look alike and are filled with crime, accidents, and disasters. Interviews with more than 2,000 TV journalists around the country demonstrate that news looks this way because of the ingrained belief that 'eye-ball grabbers' are the only way to build an audience. This book contradicts the conventional wisdom using empirical evidence drawn from a five-year content analysis of local news in more than 154 stations in 50 markets around the country. The book shows that 'how' a story is reported is more important for building ratings than what the story is about. Local TV does not have to 'bleed to lead'. Instead local journalists can succeed by putting in the effort to get good stories, finding and balancing sources, seeking out experts, and making stories relevant to the local audience.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504034562

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The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells Pdf

The science fiction masterpiece of man versus alien that inspired generations, from Orson Welles’s classic radio play to the film starring Tom Cruise. At the turn of the twentieth century, few would believe that mankind is being watched from above. But millions of miles from Earth, the lords of the Red Planet prepare their armies for invasion, waiting for the moment to strike. When they land in the English countryside, baffled humans approach, waving white flags, and the Martians burn them to a crisp. The war has begun, and mankind doesn’t stand a chance. As Martian armies roll across England, one man fights to keep his family safe, risking his life—and his sanity—on the front lines of the greatest war in galactic history. H. G. Wells’s groundbreaking novel, adapted to radio and film, among other mediums, by visionary artists from Orson Welles to Steven Spielberg, remains one of the most chilling, unforgettable works of science fiction ever written. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Author : Edward Bliss, Jr.
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0231521936

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Now the News by Edward Bliss, Jr. Pdf

-- Walter Cronkite

Author : Joe Garner
Publisher : Sourcebooks MediaFusion
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1402200315

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And the Crowd Goes Wild by Joe Garner Pdf

Relive the greatest broadcast moments in sports, in words and two audio CDs.

Author : Daniel M. Pinkwater
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0689716206

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Borgel by Daniel M. Pinkwater Pdf

Melvin recounts his extraordinary adventures in time and space with his 111-year-old sort of great-Uncle Borgel.