Are a rare sighting around cities and urban areas. It seems as if the movie theater business has been, McDonalized, taken over by big corporations such as Regal Entertainment Group. I had not really thought about this dilemma until Edward, from the local Eugene Theater, Bijou, came to talk to my Political Economy of Media class. He explained many differences between his theater, the Bijou.

December 10, 2011 by Ryan Lloyd. For my last blog post, I wanted to learn more about comics and how the world of advertising comes into play when companies promote them. I found out however, that comic books themselves are a rich form of advertising.

J412 Political Economy of Media. In a letter to W. James Madison famously wrote, A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Talking So Much, Saying So Little.

In 1997, Keith Olbermann suddenly left ESPN under a cloud of controversy, evidently burning.