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Binding: Paperback
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Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: April 29, 2003
Sales Rank: 1217433
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Kids must have special rules. It is more than naive to pretend that the market alone will protect them. We recognize this in virtually every sphere of life. Yet in the media, we have stripped away the very rules created to protect them, leaving them almost entirely to the profit-driven manipulations of the free market.
THE OTHER PARENT
THE INSIDE STORY OF THE MEDIA'S EFFECT ON OUR CHILDREN
James P. Steyer's explosive investigation into how the media affects our children is a groundbreaking book that will shock most parents. Through songs on the radio, Internet access, television, and movies, our kids are learning how to live in an adult world long before they are ready. They are besieged on a daily basis by images of sex, commercialism, and violence via such mainstream programming as Dawson's Creek, films such as American Pie and The Matrix, and computer games such as Doom and Quake. "This is the new media reality," Steyer states, "and it is one most parents are not prepared for."
Steyer examines how we have allowed media to bombard our children's lives and he offers practical advice on countering the incessant parade of images that frighten, intrigue, and influence America's kids:
Putting your kids on a media diet
Finding alternative activities for them besides television and the Internet
Discovering what they think about the commercials, programs, and music they encounter on a daily basis
Organizing advocacy groups, contacting government leaders, and boycotting media outlets that target children with inappropriate content.
The Other Parent is a powerful and provocative book about the media's incredible impact on our families and our society.
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I can't say that this is the greatest or most intellectual book on kids and media that I've ever read, but it's still an excellent account of how the media...particularly childrens media completely disregards children as anything other than a commodity. This is an excellent book for a parent, or someone exploring this topic for the first time who is looking for an easy read that presents them with straight facts about childrens media without a lot of analytical or psychological babble.
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The book The Other Parent by James P. Steyer is about a man named Jim who works in the media. He is Jealous of his competitors simply because they make more money than him. His competitors went to the same college as him and work just as hard as him. He soon realizes that he loves working and making children happy. On the other hand his competitors only work for money and this is the reason why they make more money than Jim.
One thing I enjoyed about the book is I was able to relate to it. ... Read More
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Steyer presents some interesting ideas and potential solutions in The Other Parent but his blatant ideological leanings and constant fawnings over the Clintons ('I will forever appreciate his [Bill Clinton's] personal kindness' - see the acknowledgements) will trouble all but the most ardent admirers of the former president. Steyer gives no indication if he would allow his own daughter to serve 'under' the former president as an a young intern some day.
As to Steyer's take on television and ... Read More
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In the 1960's, one of the things requested by the leaders of the Black Movement was the more frequent appearance on television of Black performers. Specifically, these performers were to be in programs where they portrayed competent, contributing people. Such programs as Amos n' Andy, under pressure from Black leaders and Civil Rights advocates, were removed from television. Their demands were guided by the belief that the way in which Black people were portrayed on television would have a marked effect ... Read More
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"If another adult spent five or six hours a day with your kids, regularly exposing them to sex, violence, and rampantly commercial values, you would probably forbid that person to have any further contact with them. Yet most of us passively allow the media to expose our kids routinely to these values...and do virtually nothing about it." - James P. Steyer in "The Other Parent"
James Steyer does a fabulous job examining how sex, violence, and commercialism in the media affect children; why the media ... Read More
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