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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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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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Journalist Maziar Bahari, whose memoir "And Then They Came for Me" about his 118 days of imprisonment and torture in Iran has been made into the film "Rosewater," says that the frustration over the inability to control social media and the internet has driven authoritarian regimes deeper into their comfort zones of imprisoning, torturing, and murdering the messengers.

"These are analogue regimes resorting to all their old methods of suppression of information," says Mr. Bahari in a phone interview. "They are used to controlling people through imprisonment, murder, shutting down newspapers and radio stations. They can't handle what the Internet is doing in the way of generating social movements and facilitating communication."

He added, "Social media is a phenomenon that even Mark Zuckerberg himself has no idea how to control."

"So imagine being one of these authoritarian regimes," Bahari added. "They don't like to rock the boat. That's what social media is all about and it makes them very angry."

Journalists, as suppliers of internet and social media fodder are what could be referred to as Analogue Enemy Number One.

Bahari, a native of Iran, returned to the country in 2009 to cover the presidential election and the subsequent protests challenging the results that kept President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power, according to his memoir.

After shooting news video of the protests, he was arrested.

"Rosewater," named after the scent worn by Bahari's tormentor, is written and directed by "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart.

The film offers disturbing revelations of how Iranian officials chose to "weaponize" Bahari's appearance on the show, which has a large following online and on social media platforms.

The journalist participated in a comedy sketch wherein he met with a "spy" actually Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones in sunglasses in Iran. During his imprisonment, Bahari's jailers tortured him and repeatedly made reference to the show as the premise for accusing him of espionage, Bahari explained.

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