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A 5 page paper which examines the continuing ongoing debate in the American media as it is being covered in journalism, magazines, on television, radio, and the Internet. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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than at any other time in U.S. history, with journalists, magazine writers, television and radio commentators and Internet webmasters leading the way. People are being inundated with nonstop analysis
of social and political issues of current interest. There can be little doubt that the media is in firm command of American public opinion, and dictates the general consensus
on a wide range of subjects. The ongoing debate on the right to pray in public schools continues to rage on. The ways in which the individual
media conglomerates are portraying the issue provide considerable insights into prevailing attitudes. In February of 2003, the U.S. Department of Education issued a four-page guideline on "Constitutionally Protected Prayer
in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools" (Uncle Sams Prayer Stick, 2003, p. 38). In a letter accompanying the document, Secretary of Education Rod Paige wrote, "Public schools should
not be hostile to the religious rights of their students and their families... At the same time, school officials may not compel students to participate in prayer or other religious
activities. Nor may teachers, school administrators, and other school employees, when acting in their official capacities as representatives of the state, encourage or discourage prayer, or participate in such activities
with students" (Uncle Sams Prayer Stick, 2003, p. 38). At what appeared to be a major Bush Administration policy statement in support of the right to pray in public schools,
"the national media hardly blinked (Uncle Sams Prayer Stick, 2003, p. 38). Why? Most likely because media affiliates were savvy enough to realize that these guidelines were nothing
more than "a restating of long-standing principles reiterated time and again by all three branches of the federal government" (Uncle Sams Prayer Stick, 2003, p. 38). The media
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