Media
The Manhattan Mercury is the city's daily newspaper with a circulation of approximately 9,500 copies. Other newspapers published in the city include the alternative weekly The Hype Weekly which focuses on events, arts and culture in the area with a circulation of 2,500, the weekly Manhattan Free Press, the agriculture-oriented Grass & Grain, and the K-State university newspaper, the Kansas State Collegian.
Manhattan is a center of broadcast media for the surrounding area. One AM and 11 FM radio stations are licensed to and/or broadcast from the city. Manhattan lies within the Topeka, Kansas television market, and three stations are licensed to and/or broadcast from the city, including a LegacyTV affiliate, an independent station, and K-State station KKSU-LP.
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one’s ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the “educational system” are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)