Kaplan Summary In “Welcome to the Infotainment Freak Show”‚ Martin Kaplan explains how the world is under the reign of entertainment. People are glued to today’s technology because of how easy it is to give and receive news. The era is known as postmodernity‚ or “pomo” for short; it is an era of subjective knowledge and the truth is what society makes it. News stopped being about content and truth and gained a political and profit-based agenda. People no longer tune in to the news for truthful‚
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tremendous role in society. We use the media in various ways; we use it to obtain new information‚ stay informed‚ follow trends‚ and monitor power of the government. Underneath the media that we all so love are the “well-informed” Journalist and the journalism they partake in. I put well-informed in quotes because they are well‚ well-informed but simultaneously not well-informed. Journalist are the ones that go on the hunt for the next big story to inform the public about at a rapid pace. Every day the
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instinct to protect her‚ surprised me as well. I have five brothers; four are half brothers and two I’ve never met. If I found out any one of them was in trouble‚ there is no doubt in my mind I would react and try to help them. 2. Investigative journalism is when reporters spend long periods of time researching and investigating one topic to find out every detail they can. It requires analyzing documents and interviewing with the people of the story‚ which makes it a primary source. 3. DeGregory
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that the masses needed to know the ill deeds of the government and the wrongs they have committed against innocent men. A clear instance is Homage to Catalonia‚ of which a critic told Orwell that it could have been a good book but he turned it into journalism. Orwell implementation of his views and knowledge of the current events overpowered the book. However‚ he did not care for what other people thought. He wanted to shine light upon the truth and various aspects of the situation. Orwell strongly
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Writing Proficiency and Assessment Measures in Programs of Journalism and Mass Communication‚” is about the increasing pattern of poor student writing that has been prevalent in the past years. Lingwall asserts that over the past 10 years‚ the overall writing skills of the average college student has greatly decreased. For his paper‚ Lingwall conducted a study based on a survey sent to 1‚000 members of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. The survey recipients were asked
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Under the constitution‚ every American has the right of free speech‚ but does free speech matter if no one can hear it? “Free Speech for sale” reveals the painful truth that free speech‚ and the certainty that one will be heard‚ is guaranteed only to those who can afford it. And corporations can afford it. Whether through purchasing massive amounts of advertising for political purposes‚ or by owning the companies that bring people the news‚ powerful corporations are able to drown out the voices that
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Juniors took NCAE To further enhance the abilities of the students and to prepare on which career to choose‚ the Department of Education organized National Career Assessment Examination for 3rd year High School students. In connection with this‚ 114 students of PSU Laboratory High School took the said exam on August 29. Four rooms of the Laboratory High School were occupied by the examiners. Meanwhile‚ the examination started at 8:00 in the morning and finished at 3:00 in the afternoon. NCAE
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Financial Careers What am I going to do after school or university? Maybe I should consider a job in the financial world. There’s a surprisingly wide range to choose from — for example‚ I could raise money for charities or sell famous paintings or write about economics as a financial journalist or run my own company or... Fund-raiser. There are thousands of different charities these days — e.g. ’for children’‚ ’cancer research’‚ ’the disabled’‚ ’the third world’‚ ’AIDS research’. They all do
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stories when I was in 4th or 5th grade‚ but I could never write more than two pages without me changing the whole story because I didn ’t think it was cool anymore. So‚ I never really thought much about writing until I enrolled in our school ’s journalism and media literacy courses. This class was in charge of our school ’s newspaper and designed our yearbooks and programs for school events. I ended up being an editor for the paper. My job watched over all of the sports stories and events around
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The media is considered as one of the most powerful sectors in the United Kingdom due to the wide readability‚ complexity‚ maturity and mindset of the English readers. The number of weekly newspapers‚ Sunday titles‚ magazines and other informative publications are very large in UK and hence over a period of time‚ an unhealthy competition to enhance the readership has forced a part of the media to resort to illegal and unethical means to extract news or create news. The juicy stories thus created
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