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14 Regent U. L. Rev. 283 (2001-2002)
Crafting Bi/Homosexual Youth

handle is hein.journals/regulr14 and id is 291 raw text is: CRAFTING BI/HOMOSEXUAL YOUTH Judith A. Reisman* The press can both stimulate public opinion and miseducate it .... The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive, and judiciary. One would then like to ask: By what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible.' Aleksander Solzhenitsyn I. INTRODUCTION Based on its free speech privileges, the American press is charged with providing a window to the world by which the polity may locate the source of a social malaise, evaluate and correct it. But, if establishment media-news and entertainment-broadcasts disinformation and conceals adverse information about a matter or malaise, then the Fourth Estate becomes an unelected fifth column directing law and public policy. Philip Kotler's classic work Marketing Management2 documents how controlled news is used to both stimulate public opinion and miseducate it.3 Rodgers and Kotler report that in a media campaign, two and one-half percent of our social leaders often sway roughly thirteen percent of the public early-on who later move another thirty-four percent, and so on until a majority accept and adapt to the proffered new product or idea.4 Media portrayal-positive or negative-can have a profound impact on public perception. For example, the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York Dr. Judith Reisman earned her Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University. She is president of The Institute for Media Education. Her publications include the U.S. Department of Justice, Juvenile Justice study, Images of Children, Crime and Violence in Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler (1989), Kinsey, Sex and Fraud (Reisman, et al., 1990) and Soft Porn Plays Hardball (1991), Partner Solicitation Language as a Reflection of Male Sexual Orientation (with Johnson, 1995), and Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences (1998, 2000). She has been a consultant to three U.S. Department of Justice administrations, The U.S. Department of Education, as well as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Reisman is sought worldwide to speak, lecture, testify, and counsel individuals, organizations, professionals and governments regarding (a) fraudulent sex science and (b) the power and effect of images and the media to alter human behavior. The special emphasis of her work has been and continues to be the negative influence of these change agents upon children and society. I Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Harvard University Commencement Address, reprinted in NAV'L REv., July 7, 1978, at 838. 2 See PHILIP KOTLER, MARKETING MANAGEMENT (1988). 3 Solzhenitsyn, supra note 1. 4 KOTLER, supra note 2, at 345.

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