
Media Education Foundation Check out Ironweed Films for environmental, political and socially-conscious documentaries from independent filmmakers with messages that matter. Sign up, and each month you'll receive a DVD that contains a documentary and two or three short films.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Incidents of violence against women on mainstream U.S. television has increased by 120 percent in the past five years, with the depiction of teen girls as victims rising by some

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In our ongoing green efforts, MEF uses CFLs, recycled
printer paper, programmable thermostats, and we compost! What can you do to reduce your office waste?
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From daily smog to the rising threat of global warming, it’s pretty obvious that we all need to clean up our act a little. Much has been said about how to go about doing this at home, but what about ...

Media Education Foundation Kendra Hodgson will be representing MEF in booth #303 at the National Women Studies Annual Conference in Atlanta next week. November 13-15, 2009. If you are there, stop by!
Source: www.nwsa.org
The theme: Difficult Dialogues: NWSA 2009 will examine how feminist intellectual, political, and institutional practices cannot be adequately practiced if the politics of gender are conceptualized (overtly ...

Media Education Foundation Alex Peterson will be representing MEF in booth #214 at the National Communication Association's Annual Conference in Chicago next week. November 12-14, 2009. If you are there, stop by!

Media Education Foundation ...Did you know: In the U.S., eight advertising companies run 97% of the ads on television.

Media Education Foundation Jack Shaheen looks to break stereotypes at the Calgary Film Fest!
Source: www.calgaryherald.com
The American author and professor is frequently an expert guest on news programs such as Nightline, Good Morning America, 48 Hours and The Today Show, where he is enlisted to discuss the American media's less-than-flattering portrayal of Arabs. ...

Media Education Foundation Riane Eisler, featured scholar in MEF's film "Tomorrow's Children", receives the 2009 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award (earlier awarded to the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jacques Cousteau, Helen Caldicott, King Hussein of Jordan, and Walter Cronkite.

Source: www.latimes.com
Reporting from New York - More than an entire day -- that's how long children sit in front of the television in an average week, according to new findings released Monday by Nielsen.The amount of television ...

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A New York City Battle over Billboards! Artists fight back against corporate ads in public spaces.
Be sure to check out MEF's upcoming film “Silent Theft” also exploring corporate takeover.
Source: www.nytimes.com
In Lower Manhattan, a group of artists painted over advertisements and put up artwork, hoping to create a dialogue about the use of public space.

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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Do adolescents require special new protections against digital marketing techniques? In her talk at the Children's Advertising Review Unit Conference, Ellen Wartella cited new findings that suggest they might. ...

Media Education Foundation Our friends at the CCFC have been running a campaign to stop the false and deceptive marketing of baby videos -- now, an important success!
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The Walt Disney Company is offering refunds for its “Baby Einstein” videos, a tacit admission that they did not increase intellect.

Media Education Foundation This Sun., MEF friend Byron Hurt (maker of "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes") will be on BBC Radio to discuss his views on Spike Lee from a filmmaker's POV. 10:30 pm (EST)

















