"Halloween’s coming up. If you could have Mitt Romney dress in a costume‚ what should he be for Halloween?" The above is quoted as an actual question asked by Douglas Brinkley of Rolling Stone to none other than the President of the United States‚ Barack Hussein Obama‚ in an interview printed in October 2012. While a periodical known primarily for mainstream music news‚ Rolling Stone does employ international caliber journalists‚ and certainly should be printing a slightly higher quality drivel
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Accuracy & The News Media [pic] Submitted by E. Wells How Accurate is the News Reporting we Receive? According to the Pew Research Center‚ a non-profit‚ non-partisan research organization‚ they say that “the public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys‚ and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.” Toward this‚ Pew Research‚ states that “just 29% of Americans
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this interest has grown to embrace computer-influenced adaptations of these traditional mass media‚ the latest being the World Wide Web (www)‚ which is part of the Internet‚ or the Information Superhighway” (Engsberg‚ Lang‚ & Engel Lang‚ 2001‚ p. 1761). The ever-growing multimedia network has started to put a damper on the printed form of media. Although many would argue this statement‚ but with the new development of e-readers and tablets it is making magazine and newspaper sales decline. Within
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1‚ new media technologies may have little impact on politics‚ even change politics for the worse. It has little effect on civic engagement. New media technologies increased political knowledge among citizens already interested in politics‚ for users who are not‚ public sphere online is meaningless. Social media activists are more democratic‚ more knowledgeable about current political events and also somewhat more understanding of anti-government sentiment. As the new media technologies provide a
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NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGY TABLE OF CONTENTS QUESTION 1: CONVERGENCE 1.1 Introduction: Definition of convergence 1.2 Levels of convergence 1.3 Convergence in new media 1.4 Conclusion QUESTION 2: THE ROLE OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY IN THE NETWORK SOCIETY 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The role of mobile technology in the network society 2.3 The role of mobile technology phones in rural development 2.4 Conclusion QUESTION 3: REGULATED AND UNREGULATED ICT MARKETS 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Regulated
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Bias in new media “The biases the media has are bigger than conservative or liberal. They’re about getting ratings‚ about making money‚ about doing stories that are easy to cover.” This may seem like a trite saying but it holds an enormous amount of truth. As viewers we trust what reporters write in the newspaper‚ and say on television and radio stations. We expect them to report the truth. However‚ current media outlets distort stories and certain news reports are getting too much attention
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The standards for bloggers versus professional journalists should be the same if the blog is claiming to be journalistic but most blogs are not. Blogs are used to communicate with others on a personal level--a conversation of the writer to the reader. Journalists write to be printed with editors cutting and changing their words to capture a conveyed meaning and an opinion. The blogger has complete control over what they are saying “the freedom from foreign gatekeepers” (Levinson‚ p. 84) this
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Internet users continues to grow‚ do you think that the Internet will change the way that we read and think about the news? As more and more people‚ especially young people‚ turn to the Internet for news about world and local events‚ we find that newspapers‚ television‚ and radio news have been losing their audience or even going out of business. Some people are concerned about this shift because newspapers provide important in-depth coverage of events‚ while some Internet news sites only report opinions
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Effects of News Media HUM 186 October 30‚ 2013 University of Phoenix Effects of News Media The effect of news on American culture today can be contributed to new technology; this technology that contains both positive and negative aspects is considered the journalism of the 21st century. An era of life that was simpler when radio‚ newspapers‚ and news films that brought the public information has been replaced with technology specifically the Internet. It is now inherent for individuals
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Effects of News Media Effects of News Media Without thoughtful discussions media news puts news online within seconds. Some problems journalists feel the pressure of include; made up facts‚ invented sources‚ stolen quotes from newspapers‚ and plagiarism. People today do not want to wait for anything. They have to have that instant gratification; it could be online communication of cell phones‚ or direct deposit of their paycheck in their bank account. Journalists make it a point to seek truth
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