Peter M. Sandman: Articles on the Web Index. Terrorists vs. Bathtubs. Disinformation. Most of us lie and get lied to every single day.
We say we're fine when we're actually having a bad day. We lie to protect the feelings of others, to get out of trouble and to get what we want. Our newspapers lie, our politicians lie, our parents lie. Considering how surrounded we are by lies, we ought to be experts in telling fact from fiction: but are we? The Disinformation movie Click the image or link below to watch the movie. Launch the Disinformation movie Which stories do you think actually happened? Heartland Pulls Billboard on Global Warming. Heartland InstituteA billboard campaign: Ted Kaczynski, whose homemade bombs killed 3 people and wounded 23. Drivers moving along Chicago’s inbound Eisenhower Expressway on Friday may have been surprised to see Ted Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, staring at them from a massive billboard. “I still believe in global warming. The Dove Sketches Beauty Scam. "Dude, are you doing the Dove ad now?
That was so April 15th...? " Yes, I realize I missed the meme train, but it's better to be right than part of the debate, especially when there is no debate, this is all a short con inside a 50+ year long con. Remember House Of Games? The Witnesses That Didn't. The Teen Moms of Gloucester: What the Media Didn't Tell You. August 12, 2008 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Gloucester, Massachusetts, a sleepy fishing town better known for cod than controversy, hit the headlines after seventeen teenage girls at the local high school became pregnant -- a fourfold increase over previous years. And it appeared that at least some of them did so intentionally. But few were asking the most basic question: Why is this such a big story? Americans seem to have collective amnesia about the long history of white, "respectable" girls getting pregnant. THE GLOUCESTER PREGNANCY PACT: A TALE OF DISTORTION. In the summer of 2008, the high school principal of the fishing town of Gloucester, Massachusetts told a TIME Magazine reporter that 18 girls at his school had made a pact to become pregnant.
The scandal shocked the world, breaking in the days before teen moms graced the cover of US Weekly by virtue of MTV reality shows like “16 and Pregnant.” Reporters from Europe, South America, and most of the United States flocked to Gloucester. Teenage Pregnancy - Gloucester Pregnancy Pact. Kyla on the docks in downtown Gloucester.
Photo Credit: Danielle Levitt There's something wrong with this one. Do another one," 16-year-old Kyla Brown begs Gloucester High School nurse Kim Daly. Sure, Kyla's breasts ache. And she had unprotected sex with her boyfriend just a month ago. Media Education Foundation. Gloucester 18, The The Realities of Teen Pregnancy When news spread in 2008 that eighteen high school girls from Gloucester, Massachusetts, had made a pact with one another to become pregnant, it touched off an international firestorm.
But in the tabloid-driven frenzy of moral outrage and speculation that followed, the real story went missing. The Gloucester 18 tells that story. Drawing on interviews with the girls involved, high school counselors, health experts, and doctors, the film puts a human face on a stunning fact: that the U.S. has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the developed world. An excellent resource for high school health classes, teen pregnancy prevention programs, and courses in psychology, public health, and media studies. Filmmaker Info FRANK DRUCKER | Executive Producer Frank Drucker has been producing and directing for 21 years in both New York and Los Angeles. Film Festivals Cape Ann Film Festival 2010THE GLOUCESTER 18: TEEN MOMS CHOOSE ROUGH ROAD (4 STARS)M.
Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High. As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies — more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year.
Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers. But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason there's been such a spike in teen pregnancies in this Massachusetts fishing town. School officials started looking into the matter as early as October, after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find... Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy - Martin Gilens. The "Welfare Queen" Experiment: How Viewers React to Images of African-American Mothers on Welfare. Charts That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity. These 31 charts will destroy your faith in humanity. Photoshop manipulations in journalism. Response to Photoshop prevents honor code violations at BYU Well...I actually think both the BYU and newspaper's retouching is reasonable.
Given that even I (an Australian) know that BYU is Mormon, and thus has fairly rigid "morality" codes, I'm no more surprised they edit tattoos and navels than that they'd crop a photo to cover a pair of breasts. Pascal Dangin and fashion photography retouching.