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:
“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)
“Never before has a generation of parents faced such awesome competition with the mass media for their children’s attention. While parents tout the virtues of premarital virginity, drug-free living, nonviolent resolution of social conflict, or character over physical appearance, their values are daily challenged by television soaps, rock music lyrics, tabloid headlines, and movie scenes extolling the importance of physical appearance and conformity.”
—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)
“Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why—but the editorialists forget it—terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)