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- Issue Brief The report discusses the history of "entertainment education" – the use of entertainment media as a means of educating viewers about important health and social issues – and provides the leading examples of entertainment education from American television.
Washington Post/Kaiser/Harvard University Survey Project About the Partnership: The Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University Survey Project is a joint partnership and an experiment in combining survey research and reporting to better inform the public. The Post, Kaiser, and Harvard jointly design and analyze surveys examining public knowledge, perceptions, and misperceptions on major issues.
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Vicky Rideout, Vice President and Director of the Program for the Study of Entertainment Media and Health, testified to the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee's Subcommittee on Competition, Foreign Commerce, and Infrastructure hearing on the rise of obesity in children in America (March 2, 2004).
I’m going to read you a list of things that some people worry about and others do not. I’d like you to tell me how worried you are about each of the following things.
Now, I’d like to ask you a question about a story that has been in the news recently. If you’re not sure of the answer, that’s okay. Just tell me and I’ll go to the next question.
Now, I have a few more questions about some of the news stories that I mentioned earlier. If you’re not sure of an answer, that’s okay. Just tell me and I’ll go to the next question. You may have heard news about President (George W.) Bush’s recent State of the Union Address.
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