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MEDIANOW
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Media
Now
MEDIA
NOW
Understanding Media,
TENTH EDITION
JOSEPH STRAUBHAAR
ROBERT LAROSE
Michigan State University
LUCINDA DAVENPORT
WCN: 01-100-101
Lucinda Davenport
Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without
the prior Senior Content Developer: Jessica Badiner
Andrea Wagner
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ISBN-13: 978-1-305-95084-9
Cengage Learning
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Boston, MA 02210
USA
BRIEFCONTENTS
CONTENTS
Preface xix
Merging Technologies 4
Changing Industries 5
Changing Lifestyles 7
Shifting Regulations 9
10
Pre-Agricultural Society 11
Agricultural Society 11
Industrial Society 12
Information Society 12
Changing Conceptions of the Media 14
Types of Communication 16
Key Terms 23
24
Media Economics 25
Media Monopolies 28
29
Political Economy 37
Feminist Studies 39
vii
42
Diffusion of Innovations 43
Gatekeeping 46
Agenda Setting 47
Framing 48
Technological Determinism 48
Key Terms 53
CHAPTER 3 Books
54
History: From Ink to Digital, From Press to Computer 54
55
57
61
E-Publishing 62
Retail Bookstores 65
Key Terms 74
75
76
Newspapers Emerge 77
viii CONTENTS
Yellow Journalism 83
Responsible Journalism 84
Muckraking 85
Professional Journalism 86
The Watchdogs 87
Technology Trends 88
Newsgathering 88
Print Publishing 89
Consumers Habits 91
■ Technology Demystified: Immersive Journalism and Virtual
Reality 92
94
Defining News 97
News Elements 97
101
Summary & Review 108 Thinking Critically about the Media 111
CHAPTER 5 Magazines
112
History 112
114
Muckraking 115
116
120
Industry 121
Economics 122
Summary & Review 128 Thinking Critically about the Media 130
CONTENTS ix
131
135
■ Media & Culture: Twenty One Pilots and the Hard Work of Music
139
142
Electronic 146
CHAPTER 7 Radio
158
168
x CONTENTS
■ Your Media Career: Local DJs Decline But Other Forms of Radio
Rise 178
Summary & Review 182 Thinking Critically about the Media 184
185
The Studio System: The Pros and Cons of Vertical Integration 190
201
205
■ Media & Culture: Fighting the Anti-Piracy War Here and Abroad
211
Summary & Review 212 Thinking Critically about the Media 213
CONTENTS xi
214
215
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235
Summary & Review 248 Thinking Critically about the Media 250
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A Corning Wrinkle
Another preparation, on the outside of the House, is the digging of
a ditch, in the shape of a crescent, about two feet back of the House,
the ditch tapering out to nothing at the two ends, the dirt being
thrown to the side away from the Colony House. All houses face due
south. The heavy storms of the Summer come rushing up, as a
general thing, from the west and northwest, and this ditch, together
with the mound of earth back of it, prevents the rush of wind and rain
getting under the Colony House, protecting the large number of
chicks, that, on occasion of sudden storm, collect there for shelter. It
has been found that this materially reduces the mortality resulting
from these heavy Summer showers, accompanied by a strong wind.
The ditch also keeps dampness entirely away from the ground under
the Colony Houses, which is also a very great advantage.
All being now ready at the Colony Houses, a large wire cage (the
one now in use being eight feet long and two and a half feet wide,
and eight inches high, with sliding doors at each end, and two soft
leather handles to carry it by) is placed at the door opening into the
chick runs from the Brooder House, and the youngsters are quietly
driven into the cage. When a sufficient number to carry safely has
been driven in, the cage is carried out, placed on the wagon and
driven to the Range. The birds at this time are from eight to nine
weeks old, we having found it is better to have a sufficient amount of
brooder room to carry them to this age before placing on Range, as
they are then much better feathered, and are less affected by
changes of atmosphere.
When the cages reach the Colony House the sliding door is placed
directly in front of the small chick door, and both slides pulled up, and
the chicks gently coaxed, by patting the box on the top and sides, to
leave it for the Colony House. We place in each of these Colony
Houses from two hundred and fifty to three hundred birds of this age.
As the cockerels develop they are separated, and those which are
perfect in formation, and as to toes, five pointed combs, etc., and
give promise of growing into proper Breeders, are placed in the
Cockerel House, and given the Range of the large enclosure
surrounding this House.
Until well along in the Summer, when the youngsters are first
placed in the Colony House, we make it a practice to hang, directly
in the center of the House and within about three feet of the floor, a
large barn lantern, and with the window drops closed this produces a
very considerable amount of heat, and helps materially to give a
feeling of comfort and contentment to the birds in their new quarters.
COLONY RANGE FEED AND WATER WAGON WITH “BILLY” IN THE SHAFTS
The afternoon following the day in which chicks are put into the
Colony Houses (which means that they have been confined for
about twenty-four hours), they are let out, but not until four o’clock,
and they find their grain ration scattered close to the door of the
House. In fact, it is not scattered until the small chick doors are
opened for them to come out, and then it is thrown on the runs, and
through the doors, as well as on the ground directly in front. The
grain lying in the runways acts in a double way; it entices them out,
and as they see it on the ground they eat very little on the runs, but
later, after they have cleaned up all on the ground, that lying on the
chick runs attracts them on back into the House at night.
The reason for letting the birds out so late in the day for their first
outing is that a chicken, late in the day, will never go any great
distance from where it has been confined, but works around close to
the quarters in which it has spent the previous hours, and naturally
returns there for shelter as the Sun goes down. The following
morning the chick doors are opened and the birds allowed to roam at
will.
Plenty of Shade
With the yearly scattering of the increased amount of litter as the
Farm enlarged, the growth on the Range is becoming more and
more luxuriant, and now the entire Range has a succession of
changing Flora from month to month, and with some varieties,
almost from week to week. There is a considerable growth of
Timothy and Clover, and many other varieties of the grass family,
which produce a varied diet of succulent food, and of course the
constant change in Flora also supplies a varied diet of seeds which
the birds harvest for themselves. Any oats and wheat which have
been missed in the litter from the Laying Houses sprout here, and
the birds also harvest this crop for themselves. The condition of the
Range under this method of handling, as we view it, is absolutely
ideal for the growing youngsters.
Fresh water is supplied daily to the Houses, and the grain ration
consists of two-thirds wheat, and one-third cracked corn. The
amount of grain fed to each Colony House depends upon the
cleaning up of it by the tenants of this particular House. The mash
box is filled daily with what is now known as the Corning Range
Mash, which consists of wheat middlings, bran, ground oats, corn
meal, and a sufficient amount of green bone, when mechanically
mixed in a machine which has been designed by the Farm for this
purpose, to give the mash a slight feeling of moisture, which is
derived entirely from the juices of the bone.
There is not so great a proportion of animal food in this Range
Mash as in the mash for the layers, and it should be noticed that
there is in it no gluten or oil meal. The early hatches particularly are
not forced along quite so rapidly, and are less liable to go into a
Winter moult than if they get these ingredients, and should they
moult it comes at a later date and does not extend over so long a
period.
On such a range it is not necessary to have so great a proportion
of animal food in the mash, because the floral growth harbors
myriads of worms and insects, which supply a large part of the
animal food needed.
Easy Assimilation
She must be fed, then, so as to have what is generally termed a
“balanced ration,” which really means a ration supplying all her
different wants.
She must be fed so as to be able to assimilate her food with ease.
She might be fed a ration which she could easily digest, but the
ration might not so assimilate and combine as to be an egg maker.
The greatest factor in assimilation is proper green food, and the
hen should have this in a crisp, succulent state, and plenty of it. The
egg being to such a large extent formed of water, unless she is
supplied with all the drinking water she will take, your labor will go for
naught, and the hen will not be able to lay eggs.
Her grain ration must be of the best, and it should be fed in such a
way that she is forced to work for it.
Do Not Overfeed
The Mash Boxes are most carefully watched, and the moment
there is the slightest inclination not to clean the Mash up thoroughly,
the quantity is cut down.
It would be somewhat easier if all the hens would moult
simultaneously, but this they do not do, and so the needs of the
different individuals during the moulting period have to be looked
after.
With the Leghorn, the combs shrink, and almost go down to
nothing in many cases. It is quite impossible, in looking over a large
number of yearling hens at this time in their lives, to believe that the
great, red comb will ever return, and it is a curious fact that, in the
majority of cases, the yearling hen’s comb is never as large as it was
in her pullet year.
As the combs begin to redden and their size increase, the flock
becomes more active, and it is necessary to add to the amount of
Mash, and, if it had been found expedient to reduce the grain ration,
this also must be brought back to the full eight quarts to one hundred
hens.
From day to day the Mash consumption increases rapidly, and the
nests begin to receive a good deal of attention, and very shortly the
output from the breeding pens becomes a very decided item in the
gathering of eggs.
By the second week in January, the pen having been handled in
the best possible way, the egg output has reached a point where it
will be safe to mate the pen, and in two weeks after this the eggs
should be running strongly fertile.
CHAPTER XXIII
Feeding the Breeding Cockerels
These birds are fed green food about eight o’clock in the morning.
In good weather it is fed in their large range yard, where the
attendant scatters it in small bunches over a wide area. At 11:30 is
fed to every hundred birds, six quarts of corn, wheat and oats, two-
thirds corn, the wheat and oats making up the other third. This is
also distributed widely over the yard. In this way the cockerels are
kept busy hunting for food, and they are less likely to get into broils
with each other for entertainment.
At 1:30 o’clock they are allowed to return to their House, having
been shut out during the morning hours. The Mash is fed daily at
1:30, and a sufficient amount is placed in their troughs for them to
thoroughly clean up by roosting time.
Sufficient grain is fed in the litter in the House to make the quantity
for the day’s rations about eight quarts for one hundred birds.