Budding Media Critic Gifts

'I can't go to be now, Mom - I'm the target audience!'

Trial by Media

I should be a writer when I grow up...

'Personally I take all these programmes with a pinch of salt.'

Squeezing the Free Press.

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'I love your playing....especially when you stop!'

Department of Theatre, Film and Television: Lights...Camera...Unemployment!

News and Magazines. Celebrity gossip. Sports scandals. Political bickering. We're out of the "information age" and well into the "too much information age"!

"And now here's Cathie with the hypothetical portion of the news."

Donald Trump Playing Golf With Hair On Fire

BBC - Crisis Management, Damage Control and Liability Supervision.

Difference of Opinion

Meet the Enemy

'Can you tell me what I've written? I can't read!'

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

"If I 'HAD IT ALL' it would it be enough?"

'There's nothing on.'

'Thank heavens! For a minute there I thought it was the news!'

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

"I'm more of a 'How Jen stays thin' person than a 'Why Jen won't let Brad alone' person."

Caution: Driver Watching "Hard Copy"

'My 'What I Did Over The Weekend' report is about my hunting a 17,000 pound moose, deep inside Canada.Some or all of this report has been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.'

"And by president we mean the one on Saturday night tv, not the real one. He kinda sucks."

Florida Governor, Rick Scott, cuts funding for rape victims.

"The regular Fox news commentator was canned for being too soft on Iran. I'm Dick Cheney."

Sci-Fi Museum. New Exhibit. H.G. Wells War of the Worlds. In 1938, Orson Welles broadcast "War of the Worlds," a radio drama about aliens from Mars invading earth. The radio drama was presented as a series of fake news reports about devastation caused by the invading aliens. Many listeners turned in to the program mid-roadcast and thought the news reports were real. Widespread panic ensued. Wow! Orson Welles caused all that panic with a radio program. Just imagine what he could have don

'Contrary to the popular view, our studies show that it is real life that contributes to violence on television.'

'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit, today, sir - a ream of paper and a half-dozen pencils.'

"Which news channel should we watch?"

"This just in: one of us always tells lies; the other always tells the truth. Who's who? Stay tuned."

"It's wonderful to be away from the rat race. So, what happened on 'CSI: Miami' last night?"

"I sincerely hope you learned a lesson this time, Mark. Drawing cartoons on your homework will get you nowhere in life."

"Since you have already been convicted by the media, I imagine we can wrap this up pretty quickly."

"... And his piano teacher says that he definitely has Van Gough's ear for music."