Will John Oliver's analysis of Fox News finally convince viewers?
Friday, April 18, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
News Reporters
Bloggers are just as legitimate as "journalists."
The following is a summary of: Gans, Herbert J. The Famine in American Mass-Communication Research: Comments on Hirsch, Tuchman, and Gecas. The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Jan., 1972), 697-705
The mass media Institutions
The mass media content
The mass media audience
1. News reporters do not have regular contact with their audience.
2. News reporters gather information based on their own value judgements.
3. News reporters need a quikly and easily applied set of methods to determine what data are to be gathered.
4. News reporters find only that which they can see and understand; that which coincides with their own beliefs.
5. News reporters work for a medium with a large heterogenous audience which they must not antagonize, offend, or confuse.
6. The same methods of gathering data continue to be used because they have traditionally withstood criticism.
Are the mass media under pressure to reflect audiences tastes in order to maintain a profitible operation? Or do the mass media simply decide the content from which the audience can choose?
A particular news medium attracts an audience who are either like-minded, or like-mided enough to tune out discordant elements through selective perception, or perhaps one uninterested and uninformed enough to leave it to the newscaster or editor to decide what is to be reported.
Most often, the news media recruit staff members whose basic values and assumptions about the world turn out to be fairly similar to the audience's, or an important part of it--which is why newsmen can so freely assume that the audience will agree with their judgments about what events are newsworthy.
Many media tend to reflect the values, or at least the wishes of their most conservative audience members who quickly protest when content becomes to controversial for them, although other media, particularly those which seek to attract younger audiences have recently begun to express the more controversial norms held my many young people.
The following is a summary of: Gans, Herbert J. The Famine in American Mass-Communication Research: Comments on Hirsch, Tuchman, and Gecas. The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Jan., 1972), 697-705
The mass media Institutions
The mass media content
The mass media audience
1. News reporters do not have regular contact with their audience.
2. News reporters gather information based on their own value judgements.
3. News reporters need a quikly and easily applied set of methods to determine what data are to be gathered.
4. News reporters find only that which they can see and understand; that which coincides with their own beliefs.
5. News reporters work for a medium with a large heterogenous audience which they must not antagonize, offend, or confuse.
6. The same methods of gathering data continue to be used because they have traditionally withstood criticism.
Are the mass media under pressure to reflect audiences tastes in order to maintain a profitible operation? Or do the mass media simply decide the content from which the audience can choose?
A particular news medium attracts an audience who are either like-minded, or like-mided enough to tune out discordant elements through selective perception, or perhaps one uninterested and uninformed enough to leave it to the newscaster or editor to decide what is to be reported.
Most often, the news media recruit staff members whose basic values and assumptions about the world turn out to be fairly similar to the audience's, or an important part of it--which is why newsmen can so freely assume that the audience will agree with their judgments about what events are newsworthy.
Many media tend to reflect the values, or at least the wishes of their most conservative audience members who quickly protest when content becomes to controversial for them, although other media, particularly those which seek to attract younger audiences have recently begun to express the more controversial norms held my many young people.
Monday, April 7, 2008
The Real News
There's a site called "TheRealNews.com" that is a totally donor and contributor supported internet news organization. I thought it would revolutionize journalism, but it appears that my internet service provider has put the brakes on it by blocking it from me.
If you can reach http://therealnewsjunkies.ning.com/
But you can't reach http://www.therealnews.com
then your service provider has censored it from you. You need to visit http://therealnewsjunkies.ning.com/ and notify them that your internet access is being censored.
If you can reach http://therealnewsjunkies.ning.com/
But you can't reach http://www.therealnews.com
then your service provider has censored it from you. You need to visit http://therealnewsjunkies.ning.com/ and notify them that your internet access is being censored.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
John McCain Getting a Free Ride by the media?
There's a group claiming that John McCain is getting a free ride by the mass media pundits who are trying to make drama out of Obama and Clinton.
It's called McCainsFreeRide.com
It's called McCainsFreeRide.com
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