Children and the media / edited by Everette E. Dennis and Edward C. Pease.

I. Overview. Symposium I / Jana Eisenberg
The moment of truth / Reed Hundt
"As I told the FCC
" : yet another modest proposal for children's television / Peggy Charren
Why kids hate educational TV / Patricia Aufderheide
Electronic childhood / Ellen Wartella. II. Covering children. Symposium II / Jana Eisenberg
From unseen and unheard to kidsbeat / Cathy Trost
How the news media "see" kids / Dale Kunkel
Children like me : where do we fit in? / María Elena Gutiérrez. III. The child audience. Symposium III / Jana Eisenberg
By the numbers : what kids watch / Larry McGill
Six myths about television and children / Milton Chen
"Ask Beth" / Elizabeth C. Winship
"Sesame street" and children in poverty / Keith W. Mielke
Teaching media literacy : yo! are you hip to this? / Renée Hobbs
Growing media smarts : tne New Mexico project / Kate Moody. IV. Kids making media. Symposium IV / Jana Eisenberg
A voice and the courage to use it / Robert Clampitt and Stephen Silha
News advisory : listen to the children / Susan Herr and Dennis Sykes
Our own voices, please / Marjani Coffey
Harlem snapshot : schooling in new technologies / Josiah Brown
Coming up next
a brighter tomorrow for kids' TV / Karen W. Jaffe. V. Books and organizations. Smarter than we think : kids, passivity and the media / Katharine E. Heintz
The guardians of growing up : a user's guide to children and media research groups / Dirk Smillie.