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A new media mogul has emerged in Venezuela: the state.

Despite an economic crisis that is bringing public finances to its knees, the self-proclaimed Bolivarian Revolution controls 14 television channels, a global satellite network (TeleSur), four newspapers soon to be five and dozens of radio stations.

The mission of this media empire is to promote the governments actions, support socialist values and drive forward the revolution, as worded in the executives recent 2015 budget proposal.

In order to finance just part of this conglomerate, the Nicols Maduro administration is planning to invest 3.6 billion bolivars next year equivalent to slightly over $508 million according to the official exchange rate, but only 64.7 million under Venezuelas controversial exchange system.

The government is simultaneously planning to use its parliamentary majority to pass a law that will allow it to directly fund over 500 community stations sympathetic to former president Hugo Chvez, bypassing local authorities.

The late Chvez always considered the media a key battleground in his quest to establish a Bolivarian regime based on his own interpretation of socialism, populism and Latin American regionalism. Now his successor, Nicols Maduro, is following in his footsteps.

The figures on state control of the media were drawn up by Marcelino Bisbal, director of postgraduate media studies at the Andrs Bello Catholic University (UCAB) in Caracas, a Jesuit-run learning center.

We took all the items earmarked for communication in the budget law, and the largest share corresponded to the Information and Communication Ministry, said the scholar.

Even though this renewed investment effort maintains no relation to the low audience ratings of the state-owned media, Bisbal said the logic behind it was the states desire to fill all areas of public life. And while it is true, as state spokesmen say, that there are still many more private outlets than public ones, they are intimidated and self-censoring, and dominated by the official truth.

The 3.6 billion bolivars slated for investment in the media surpasses the money allocated to the judicial and electoral branches of government, two of the five powers granted to the state under the 1999 Constitution. That is despite the fact that 2015 is an election year, a fact that normally requires additional funding for the National Electoral Council.

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BOSTON (CBS) Every day we are bombarded with images in magazines, on TV, and online. And those images can shape a young girls self-esteem before she even understands what shes looking at.

Everybodys always really skinny.

Most of the girls are white.

It makes me feel unattractive, like a I can never look like that.

Everybody looks perfect and it kind of lowered my self-esteem.

Thats just a sampling of sixth grade girls describing how those glossy, photoshopped pictures can make them feel.

But now there is a new program teaching girls how to take control of media and the message.

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What media is teaching girls, overall, in mainstream media is that theyre not enough. They are not sexy enough, not hot enough, theyre not enough, Michelle Cove told WBZ-TV.

Thats why she started the non-profit organization Media Girls.

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Eye On Education: Program Teaches Girls How To Control Media And Message

Bill Cosby speaks during a Veterans Day ceremony this year in Philadelphia. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption

Bill Cosby speaks during a Veterans Day ceremony this year in Philadelphia.

This may be the first time in a long while that Bill Cosby can't control the public conversation about Bill Cosby.

Read the recent biography Cosby: His Life and Times, and you see a portrait of a talented performer who took control of his business and career interests early on, forever suspicious of journalists and industry executives who might try to interfere.

But in the recent explosion of attention to allegations that the comedy superstar drugged and sexually assaulted several women years ago, in incidents reaching back to the late 1960s, Cosby has remained uncharacteristically silent epitomized by his interview with NPR's Scott Simon, who found the comic would only shake his head and utter no sound when asked about the allegations.

His attorney did provide a statement posted on Cosby's website that said, in part, "decade-old, discredited allegations against Mr. Cosby have resurfaced. The fact that they are being repeated does not make them true. Mr. Cosby doesn't not intend to dignify these allegations with any comment."

Later, a joint statement from Cosby's attorney and a lawyer for Andrea Constand, a woman who settled a lawsuit with Cosby over such allegations in 2006, was posted on the site that read, in part: "The statement released by Mr. Cosby's attorney over the weekend was not intended to refer in any way to Andrea Constand. As previously reported, differences between Mr. Cosby and Ms. Constand were resolved to the mutual satisfaction of Mr. Cosby and Ms. Constand years ago."

News of Cosby's silence rocketed across media; the moment was covered everywhere from NBC's Today show to CNN, USA Today and The Washington Post, which called it "perhaps the most significant dead air in the history of National Public Radio."

When NPR most recently spoke to Cosby, four women had come forward publicly with rape allegations: Constand, Beth Ferrier, Tamara Green and Barbara Bowman. (See this story for a more detailed account of their allegations.) Over the weekend, another woman, 66-year-old publicist Joan Tarshis, also told media outlets she was drugged and raped by Cosby when she was 19 years old. Constand filed a lawsuit in 2005 that included 13 women willing to tell similar stories, Greene and Bowman among them; the suit was settled, no terms were disclosed and Cosby was never charged with a crime.

But several recent events, including the 30th anniversary of The Cosby Show and the publication of the biography, have pushed media to reconsider Cosby's legacy.

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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) -

We've all seen the headlines, an athletes goes on a profanity-laced Twitter rant, or posts a regrettable picture on Instagram.

Up until now, schools have been teaching student athletes what not to do, but a new program at UW-L is teaching those athletes how to use social media to their advantage.

Most college students use social media purely for entertainment, Kevin King thinks they are missing a huge opportunity. "We want focus on what they should do and what they can do to brand themselves," said King, who teaches in the UW-L Sports Management Program.

King teaches a new seminar showing student athletes how to use social media to their advantage.

It teaches them to create and carefully control their own brand, something he thinks is important at this time in their lives. "Right now as college students but getting ready to enter the job force, so they want to start to focus on their brand and how to market themselves and social media has so many platforms in which they can take advantage of," said King.

There are a lot of courses that teach students to think twice before clicking send, but King wants this course to be different. "A lot of people tell you what not to do, but it's not really educating someone," said King, "I think you educate them and you coach them up, you make them a part of the solution and we do it together."

"I loved it," said Junior Mikayla Beuch, a swimmer at UW-L.

Beuch almost immediately took what she learned in the course and used it to her advantage. "I didn't even think of social media as a way of benefiting myself for the future, for instance he gave us examples of powerful websites like LinkedIn, I would have never thought of that," said Beauch, "I actually went home and made a LinkedIn account so now I'm on there and I'm making myself better as a professional, as a student-athlete for the future."

UW-L football player Chris Stackhouse felt the same way after taking the course. "Kevin taught us a lot of things about social media that you wouldn't normally think about when you open up your Twitter or your Facebook or your LinkedIn account," said Stackhouse.

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UW-L student athletes learn to use social media to their advantage