Part I. Getting to Know You.Chapter 1. Beauty or Beast? Margaret Smith Crocco.Chapter 2. Spreading the News about Social Studies; Gene Maeroff.Chapter 3. The Information Media: Social Studies' Main Competitor; Carlos Cortes.Part II. Historical Perspectives.Chapter 4. A Fickle Lover: Experiences with the Media in Historical Context; Ronald Evans.Chapter 5. Headlines and Furrowed Brows: NCSS Engagement with Social Studies Critics and the Press; Tedd Levy.Chapter 6. Dispatches from the Front Line of the Culture Wars; Linda Symcox.Chapter 7. The Illusion of Knowledge: Editorial Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of History; Richard J. Paxton.Part III. Lessons from the Field.Chapter 8. The Press and Global Education; Merry Merryfield.Chapter 9. Riding the Tiger: The Press, Myra, and Me; David Sadker.Chapter 10. Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop; Mark Sass.Chapter 11. What Counts as a (News/His)Story? Whose (News/His)Story? Catherine Cornbleth.Chapter 12. When Your Lesson Plan Ends Up on the Front Page; James McGrath Morris.Part IV. Teaching about/with the Media.Chapter 13. Give Us 8 Seconds and We'll Give You…the Business; Doug Selwyn.Chapter 14. Children's Exposure to Trauma and Violence in the Media: Evolving Literacy Skills to Counter Hype and Foster Hope; Michael and Ilene Berson.Chapter 15. Reading the News and Reading the World in High School Social Studies Classrooms; Alan J. Singer and Michael Pezone.Part V. New Media and Citizenship Education.Chapter 16. Democratic Education and Self-Publishing on the Web; Howard Budin.Chapter 17. Blogs in the Machine; Judith Cramer.Part VI. Improving the Relationship.Chapter 18. Practicing What We Preach; Richard Theisen.Chapter 19. Covering the Conflict and Missing the Point; Richard Lee Colvin.Chapter 20. Down from the Tower and into the Fray: Adventures in Writing for the Popular Press; E. Wayne Ross.