# Media Probes Epsiode 3: Language

How various media affect the way people live and think is explored in this informative magazine-style survey that includes documentary, animated and dramatized segments. A study of language focusing on the National Theater of the Deaf, an abusive language specialist and a Doonesbury cartoon strip praising California's "mellow-speak." 'Language" is hosted by Victor Borge. Mickey Lemle and Kit Laybourne Executive Produced the “Media Probes” series aired in PBS's Core schedule in 1982. The won an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Citation and multiple Blue Ribbons at American Film Festival. Each episode of the eight-part 1982 series has a different host: Cheryl Tiegs for `Photography,' Ruth Warrick for ` Soap Operas ,' John Cameron Swayze for `TV News,' Victor Borge for ` Language ,' Mark Shields for `Political Spots,' Bill Blass for ` Design ,' Tony Kahn for `Soundaround' and Peter Schwartz for ` The Future .'

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1982
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/mediaprobeslanguage)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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