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Global Kids Digital Media Initiative

Kids has reached out to its online networks of young people both in real life through its wide in-school network in New York City as well as online to teens from around the globe involved in it’s issue-based forum, NewzCrew.org, and its virtual world projects, Global Kids Island in Teen Second Life, to help support the larger DML initiative and grantees.

While 41% of tween mobile Internet users say they do so while commuting or traveling (to school, for example), mobile content such as the Internet is also a social medium for this audience. 26% of tween mobile Internet users say they access the web while at a friend's house and 17% say they do so at social events.

The report estimates that:

• 35% of tweens own a mobile phone
• 20% of tweens have used text messaging
• 21% of tweens have used ring & answer tones

According to the report, young mobile users are also turning to their phones for in-home entertainment:

• 58% of tweens who download or watch TV on their phone do so at home
• 64% of tweens who download or play music on their phone do so at home
• 56% of tweens who access the Internet on their phone do so at home

While text-messaging and ringtones remain the most pervasive non-voice functions on the phone, says the report, other content such as downloaded wallpapers, music, games and Internet access also rank highly among tweens.

Jeff Herrmann, VP of Mobile Media for Nielsen Mobile, says "… Marketers and media executives need to understand these ‘digital natives' as they mature and reshape the way we all think about new and traditional media."

Nielsen reports that tweens spend less time surfing the Internet than their teen counterparts. In this report, 48% of U.S. tweens said they spend less than one hour per day online. When they are online, 70% of tweens use the Internet for gaming. Comparatively, 81% of U.S. teens say they spend one hour or more per day online, with e-mail being the most pervasive online activity for this age group.

"In addition to the differences between adult and youth media consumers, there's an important gap between the media behaviors of teens and tweens," concludes Herrmann.

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PRIVATE PRISONS

A few hours after midnight one August evening last year, Walter Hazelwood and Richard Wilson climbed a fence topped with razor wire at the Houston Processing Center, a warehouse built to hold undocumented immigrants awaiting deportation. Once outside, the two prisoners assaulted a guard, stole his car and headed for Dallas.When prison officials notified the Houston police that the men had escaped, local authorities were shocked. Sure, immigrants had fled the minimum-security facility near the airport a few times before. But Hazelwood and Wilson were not being detained for lacking the papers to prove their citizenship. One was serving time for sexual abuse; the other was convicted of beating and raping an 88-year-old woman. Both men, it turned out, were among some 240 sex offenders from Oregon who had been shipped to the Texas detention center months earlier--and local authorities didn't even know they were there. The immigration center is owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America, which manages more private prisons than any other company worldwide. While C.C.A. made nearly $14,000 a day on the out-of-state inmates, the company was quick to point out that it had no legal obligation to tell the Houston police or county sheriff about their new neighbors from Oregon. "We designed and built the institution," explained Susan Hart, a company spokeswoman. "It is ours."Yet like a well-to-do rancher who discovers a couple of valuable head of cattle missing, C.C.A. expected Texas rangers to herd the wayward animals back behind the company's fence. "It's not our function to capture them," Hart told reporters. Catching the prisoners proved easier, however, than charging them with a crime. When authorities finally apprehended them after eleven days, they discovered they could no more punish the men for escaping than they could lock up a worker for walking off the job. Even in Texas, it seemed, it was not yet a crime to flee a private corporation.

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The Media ‘Whitewash’ of Hillary Clinton

There is so much evidence of Hillary Clinton’s corruption, you’d think even a reporter for a mainstream news outlet would have to stumble over enough to write or talk about it. But ever since her husband popped up on the national scene, the media has downplayed every scandal. Now, a new book on the Democratic presidential frontrunner examines why Hillary became a media darling before she even set foot in the White House.
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell’s “Whitewash” details the media’s efforts to protect the Clintons again and again. The White House travel office mess, “Filegate” and so many more illegal activities are shown in terms of the media’s enormous efforts to protect the Clintons. Bozell, whose MRC is famous for documenting media bias, shows how the Clintons were protected regardless of the nature of the offense, ranging from Bill’s offenses against his family to the abuses of power that best characterized the Clinton years. .
Bozell spoke with bloggers yesterday at the Heritage Foundation about his research for the book, which compiles most of the lies and controversies in Hillary’s past — such as her business relationships with Webster Hubbell and Craig Livingstone — many of which her supporters seem to disregard.
“People either say…I had not idea or I had forgotten,” said Bozell, adding that he wrote the book to help conservatives see why the American people still support Hillary in spite of her past.
Hillary’s shenanigans have been consistently discounted by major news outlets like CBS, NBC, ABC, The New York Times and The Washington Post. In fact, they have somewhat of a love affair with her. She is, in very real terms, their creation.
The book documents a study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, which found that in the first five and a half months of 1999, the network evening news shows covered 33 stories on Hillary as compared to George Bush’s 20 and Al Gore’s 14. And, as Bozell, pointed out, the general public doesn’t investigate further than the 5 o’clock headlines running across the screen.
Bozell noted that there is not one Clinton scandal that was ever solved because “the media chose not to pursue the truth.”
When people consider the Clintons, they think one thing: Bill Clinton’s illicit relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Every other scandal was overlooked as Bill and Hillary perfected their ability to avoid straight answers. Though, as “Whitewash” contends, they were rarely asked anything but softball questions by media bigwigs — especially women — like Katie Couric and Margaret Carlson.
“Hillary Clinton is more adept at giving a one minute answer and saying nothing than anyone…because she knows the media won’t rate and judge the substance of an answer…,” said Bozell, noting the press’s habit of reporting how well candidates “performed” rather than the effectiveness of their answers.
Spending most of the past two decades in the media, avoiding confrontation and winning favor, Bozell warns that the Clintons could march back into the White House come January 2009. In fact, Bozell called them, “the most sophisticated, ruthless political machine in the history of man.”
And though her voting record practically mirrors that of ultra-liberal Ted Kennedy, the media has painted Hillary as a moderate — almost “conservative” at times.
Bozell said that means one of two things: that the mainstream media are lying or they are not lying. If they are lying, they are violating the trust the public mistakenly places in them. But if they aren’t lying, they must view Clinton’s liberalism as the norm in their world, showing how skewed their own bias makes their reporting and why they have pandered to the Clinton celebrity.
”Whitewash” is an essential read if only to stimulate discussion about Hillary’s past offenses. But it also provides a powerful tool to examine how Hillary’s personality will both drive the media and — inevitably — lead to further, possibly more serious scandals in the future.
When Hillary changes her mind, accepts improper campaign contributions, plants questions among student audiences, and continues avoiding straight answers to simple questions like whether or not illegal aliens should receive driver’s licenses, it’s easy to see that Hillary Clinton is running for President is the same flawed character she displayed as First Lady. The media, as Bozell proves, are still just as flawed, in just the same ways, as they were in Bill Clinton’s presidency.

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