Role Of Discourse Community: Broadcast News Journalists
Discourse Community: Broadcast News Journalists
The discourse community of broadcast journalists is a broad community, but can be
narrowed down to smaller groups. A discourse community is often defined as “a group whose
shared language practices work toward a shared goal or goals.” The coherent meaning is a group
which shares a common tongue and hosts the same intent, and accomplish it with similar
intentions. As a faction, journalist come in as novices, but carry the opportunity to ascend in their
profession, to become an anchor for a national news network. Overall, the fundamental goal of
journalists is to educate the public with events that take place daily, both domestically and
internationally. With this underlying goal …show more content…
Being a discourse community these networks use multiple
genres in communicating in order to keep their audience informed. Journalists and their networks
use social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), magazine articles, and internet websites with
intentions to inform users and further their sphere of influence, along with their reliability as a
competitive network in the zealous discourse community. With the current advancement in
technology and the vast use of smartphones, news apps have become prominent in the market.
News networks like CNN, NBC, and FOX provide a free app for download, which can keep the
owner's informed through breaking news coverage, a variety of polls, and the weather. These
applications hold the ability to accentuate broadcasts, and once again contribute to their sphere of
influence and competition within the competitive community of broadcast journalism.
In the meantime, all networks use propaganda like advertisements, in order to persuade
those watching to conclusions that there news programs are unbiased, just, and hold an …show more content…
Nevertheless, the career of broadcast journalism is an ever expanding, competitive, and
influential discourse community. Having such a broad field, the array of networks learn not only
to coexist, but to use each other as sources over interviews, reports, and opinions. With their
diverse methods of communication; phone applications, social media, and basic television, they
are able to express the news to their audience around the clock. Although, this discourse
community is often scorned for a bias and recently for determining what makes the news, they
continue to capture more and more viewers. With the power this discourse community holds
today, a political bias, religious bias, and social bias can be detrimental to their audience, but can
also get the network more viewers in this competitive market. With intentions to bring an
impartial and politically balanced story to its viewers, more times than not it is communicated a
variety of ways, and mixed with propaganda, puzzling the fundamental goals of this
The discourse community of broadcast journalists is a broad community, but can be
narrowed down to smaller groups. A discourse community is often defined as “a group whose
shared language practices work toward a shared goal or goals.” The coherent meaning is a group
which shares a common tongue and hosts the same intent, and accomplish it with similar
intentions. As a faction, journalist come in as novices, but carry the opportunity to ascend in their
profession, to become an anchor for a national news network. Overall, the fundamental goal of
journalists is to educate the public with events that take place daily, both domestically and
internationally. With this underlying goal …show more content…
Being a discourse community these networks use multiple
genres in communicating in order to keep their audience informed. Journalists and their networks
use social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), magazine articles, and internet websites with
intentions to inform users and further their sphere of influence, along with their reliability as a
competitive network in the zealous discourse community. With the current advancement in
technology and the vast use of smartphones, news apps have become prominent in the market.
News networks like CNN, NBC, and FOX provide a free app for download, which can keep the
owner's informed through breaking news coverage, a variety of polls, and the weather. These
applications hold the ability to accentuate broadcasts, and once again contribute to their sphere of
influence and competition within the competitive community of broadcast journalism.
In the meantime, all networks use propaganda like advertisements, in order to persuade
those watching to conclusions that there news programs are unbiased, just, and hold an …show more content…
Nevertheless, the career of broadcast journalism is an ever expanding, competitive, and
influential discourse community. Having such a broad field, the array of networks learn not only
to coexist, but to use each other as sources over interviews, reports, and opinions. With their
diverse methods of communication; phone applications, social media, and basic television, they
are able to express the news to their audience around the clock. Although, this discourse
community is often scorned for a bias and recently for determining what makes the news, they
continue to capture more and more viewers. With the power this discourse community holds
today, a political bias, religious bias, and social bias can be detrimental to their audience, but can
also get the network more viewers in this competitive market. With intentions to bring an
impartial and politically balanced story to its viewers, more times than not it is communicated a
variety of ways, and mixed with propaganda, puzzling the fundamental goals of this