Costello Nov. 29‚ 2009 News Media Media have tremendous power in setting cultural guidelines and in shaping political discourse. It is essential that news media is challenged to be unbiased and truthful. Most many people find news whether on TV‚ newspaper‚ or magazines to be politically bias. Michael Parenti‚ the author of Inventing Reality‚ asserts that the news can be bias towards political issues by using the “Methods of Misrepresentation” (Parenti 53). This includes: “Framing and Labeling”
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Media bias in the reporting of the news is pervasive – it is present in every form of media and every style of reporting‚ no matter how non-biased one platform or outlet may claim to be. This is because of agenda-setting: the ability that the news has to tell the consumer which issues are important. Media of all kinds assert their agenda by many means. In a newspaper‚ the story on the front page is deemed to be of most importance; on a nightly news show‚ the story at the top of the hour is highlighted
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Advantages of New Media There are many advantages of new media‚ we can check twitter and facebook and other new media from our phones. We no longer need to wait for the morning newspaper because of the internet‚ also we have television that broadcasts news 24 hours a day. We can call people using skype for free using the Internet. More ways of communicating now because of the smartphones. You can create media by creating your own blog. We can see that new media is available everywhere and it has
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New Media • Provides unreliable information o Citizen Journalists • Not formally trained‚ hence do not know where to source information. • Isn’t any fact checking and editing to ensure reliability of information. o Search Engines (Google‚ Yahoo‚ Wikipedia‚ etc.) • Doesn’t evaluate reliability or quality of sites that show up in searches. • Gives priority to sites‚ which are associated with sponsors of the search engine or those that are the most popular and highly searched for. • Search engines
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The Media LaCeda Jones Cydney Williams August 4‚ 2012 Does the media‚ Both print and broadcast‚ reports fairly Does it ever cross the line between reporting the news and creating the news. In this day and time the merger between news and entertainment there is a lot of troubles and benefits that can confer. The media like any other industry is driven by profit making. This is by creating sensational and attention grabbing news at the price of exaggerating or
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The news is something that cannot be avoided nor denied. The news is swarming with facts and even lies. Fictitious news is a media source that is deliberately spreading and twisting the truth for political gain or financial gain. An example of fake news would be the article from the website The Gateway Pundit titled “NSA Documents Prove Government Spying on Trump and Trump Tower for Years.” The article “NSA Documents Prove Government Spying on Trump and Trump Tower for Years‚” is about the accusations
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the persuasion of the media‚ we have to learn how to deal with the challenges produced by it. The media may not have the political authority to embody the views and concerns of the people‚ there is still a position in our budding culture for a further relaxation of government control over the media. Of immense significance to us as Christians is that if we allow the sinfulness of humankind as we should‚ there are more grounds for us to increase extra checks‚ through other media sources. If being
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How far do you agree with conservative claims that “the news media helped America lose the war in Vietnam”? The news media was very important during the Vietnam War because due to the advent of television news reporting‚ it was the first war in history where civilians at the home front got to witness the atrocities in the battlefield instead of reading or hearing about it from the newspapers and the radio. At a time where dissent had been legitimised by the Civil Rights Movement in America and
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New Media Defining Democracy: Seminar July 19‚ The U.S. Consulate hosted a seminar on New Media Defining Democracy‚ with Prof. Sreenath Sreenivasan at the American Centre. The presentation and interactive session was well attended by schools such as‚ La. Martiniere For Girls’‚ La. Martiniere For Boys’‚ Birla High School‚ St. Xaviers Collegiate School and ILead Institute. Students as well as teachers of these schools participated and contributed in the session. Prof. Sreenivasan‚ the Dean of Student
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Mainstream Media hegemony and new media environment By Muhammad Ahmad Sheikh International Broadcaster‚ Journalist and educationist (Ex- Deputy Controller‚ Head of current Affair National Broadcasting Service Radio Pakistan‚ Bureau chief mediacon international‚ member CMA‚‚ Community Media Association‚ UK)‚ published author ezine and upublish.com) Pakistan’s mainstream media outlets have perhaps misunderstand the meaning of free flow of information under the freedom of press law. Perhaps they
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