How has the definition of news changed through the years? - ️️In the beforetime
News: an out of the ordinary event that people NEEDED TO KNOW
now
coverage of pseudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things
What is the nature of news as a profit seeking enti...
PUR 4000|189 Exam 2 Questions
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How has the definition of news changed through the years? - ✔ ✔ In the beforetime
News: an out of the ordinary event that people NEEDED TO KNOW
now
coverage of pseudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things
What is the nature of news as a profit seeking entity? - ✔ ✔ -news is a business not a public service
-they have to make money
-job is to find and report news that we will buy in a manner that we will buy it
-A single newspaper subscriber nets the paper $1000 in advertising revenue
-an online reader nets the company $5.50
How does the nature of news as a profit seeking entity influences journalists? - ✔ ✔ The newsroom
pressure cooker
need for profitability=need to sell ads=need to deliver large audiences=flashier, ore exciting stories
highly competitive
pressure on reporters is constant
objectivity , for many, no longer rules
plagiarizing and fabricating stories
speculation
,How has the public's perception and consumption of news changed? - ✔ ✔ News on the internet is
stealing consumers
alternative news sources
general lack of interest in news
tough economic times
news consumers dont know the difference between real journalism as it used to be practiced and today.
They have no historical frame of reference by which to know the difference
What does the demographics of the media look like? - ✔ ✔ Journalists are predominantly white,
Protestant, and in their 30s
Median age 36
Average income is roughly $30,000
12% of journalists are minorities; 25% of the population
What are the psychographics of the journalists vs public - ✔ ✔ Journalists 40% liberal/Public 20%
liberal
33% middle of the road/35%
25% conservative/35%
2% declined to answer/
What are the media attitudes? - ✔ ✔ judgemental
anti-business
anti-establishment
pro-environments
pro-activist
It is not the news medias business to be ANY of these things in the news pages! Only on the editorial
page!
What is bias? - ✔ ✔ mixing agendas with news
, tough to identify and often influences us without out knowledge
How does bias influence media coverage? - ✔ ✔ context
(fox runs a story runs a story one way and cnn runs the story another way)
selective reporting
(only reporting stories the support your view point)
placement
(they out the stories that they want on the first page because they would get more people to buy the
paper, not necessarily because its something that is imperative that the public knows)
Editorializing
(not being objective)
How have journalistic standards and guidelines changed? - ✔ ✔ -you dont have to name who your
sources are anymore
-the ethical standard of objectivity in journalism code was modified from "the truth" to "truth"
-manipulated perspective
-technology has been revolutionized
-journalists transformed into national celebrities and political players
-huge corporations aquire news companies and networks and create global conglomerates more
interested in bottom line than in public service
-news is a 24 challenge
-endless demand for talk
What is controlled media? - ✔ ✔ -you have control over the content
-you have control over what is said how its said and when it said
-advertisements
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