being handled. Journalists who tried to discover this corruption were considered muckrakers. Their reports helped convince Americans to act on the problems in America. This tactic in journalism did not end with the Progressive Era as it is still seen today. Muckraking journalism made an impact in the Progressive era‚ is effective in today’s world‚ and is still necessary for the future. During the Progressive
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Plimpton embedded himself with the National Football League’s Detroit Lions to cover the life of a professional quarterback. Plimpton’s adventure may be less dangerous‚ but he’s still a journalist with an interesting story to tell. All journalists will run into strange and interesting stories in their career‚ however‚ journalists must be ready for any possibility. Like Dan Rather once said "When the going gets weird‚ anchor men punt." In Plimpton’s case‚ this was almost a literal possibility. Throughout “Paper Lion”
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‘A major shaper of public opinion‚ and thus vital to any understanding of modern politics’. Discuss the validity of this claim about the mass media. Mass media can be described as forms of communication that allow a message to be sent through a medium to a large audience. But what does it exactly mean to shape public opinion; does it mean changing people’s opinions on events or just to persuade people about an issue on a matter they know nothing about? Gerry Stoker believes ‘our understanding
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The Importance of Ethical Journalism in the 21st Century Introduction In the period between December 2000 and June 2012 the number of Internet users worldwide grew from 360 million to over 2.4 billion--an increase of 566% (Internet World Stats‚ 2012). In other words‚ for more than a decade‚ the Internet has been expanding at an average rate of six new users per second. In the United States‚ a country of 313 million‚ 81% of the population now has access to the Internet (Pew Research Center
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scale. As Obama noted‚ that’s not normal intelligence gathering; “that’s theft.” Then there’s Russia‚ where the state controls all major newspapers and national TV networks‚ which are still the major news source for the bulk of the population. Journalists are beaten up or murdered‚ and the perpetrators‚ conveniently‚ are never found. Political dissenters are cowed‚ arrested‚ or driven into exile. So when Putin praises Snowden as a “human rights activist” who “struggles for freedom of information
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Wide Web to get their message heard. Citizen journalists and amateur producers can serves as an unbiased and more democratic source of news in contrast to the main stream media. There is much evidence that the main stream media is beginning to change focus to accommodate the digital revolution. Changes have even been seen in the White House‚ where bloggers are now being admitted to conferences and treated as the regular main stream media journalists. As the CEO of Reuters news and information
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regulatory leader‚ or group of individuals‚ to act as a regulator of journalists and journalistic practices. That group or leader is also given jurisdiction in terms of fining‚ reprimanding and jailing those journalists if they are found to have infringed on the regulations established. This form of media regulation‚ known as statutory regulation‚ is frowned upon as being undemocratic as it hinders the rights of expression of journalists and the rights to information of the consumers. The second form
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“Manipulation of Truth in the Realm of Visual Representation” The evolution of digital photography in the 1990s brought about dramatic changes in the art of capturing photos and their interpretation. Though pictures were manipulated in the past too‚ digital photography gave photo manipulation added dimensions. There exist varying institutions that make use of photographs to each serve their purposes. In this paper‚ I am going to talk about the usage of photographs in the form of maps‚ in terms
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To begin with the government is spending a lot more money on abstinence only classes rather than classes that focus on protection of one’s self while being sexually active. Debra Hauser‚ CNN Wire Service journalist‚ writes about how the House of Representatives have passed a bill that restricts the funding of sex education programs that “normalize teen sexual activity as an expected behavior” as part of the new “No Child Left Behind” rewrite (Hauser). What
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Curiosity Changing When you imagine a great journalist you think of someone who gives great details when writing a story in a newspaper or magazine. However‚ in the novel Black Like Me John Howard Griffin gives us his actual journal of what he really went through. Griffin is a white journalist who decided to travel the deep south as a black man. Griffin was curious‚ depressed‚ and eventually hopeful. Griffin wanted to know how it felt to be black in the segregated deep south. “If a white man became
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