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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Lerner Pub Group
Published date: 1999
Size: 8.5 x 10.5 inches
Weight: 1.52 pounds
Ages: 7 to 9
Pages: 128
Synopses
Explores the various tools advertisers, broadcasters, and others involved in the media use to impart messages to the public, describing both historical and contemporary media events and phenomena.
Publisher's Notes
A look at how the media can alter the perceptions of the public, making people believe what they are shown, includes historical notes of how media manipulation existed even in the Civil War.
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