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Hilton High School students, from left, Kamran Sharifi, Joshua Jensen, Shanna Sengillo and Kaitlyn Kellman, in English teacher Joseph Pantaleo's Media Literacy class have been exploring the question: "Does media shape our culture or does the culture shape the media?" Pantaleo said students analyze each medium: television shows, news, radio, Internet, newspaper. To get a better understanding of video, they visited WHAM CH 13 studios where students received a tour of the editing room, learned how advertisements are made, how the news is broadcast and what it takes to handle the news information as it arrives.

October 16, 2005