for news‚ in any form‚ to be a true reflection of reality‚ due to the many factors involved in the production of news. Human error‚ human interest and the fallacies of management all conspire to blur the line between truth and fiction. Potter (1998) stated that news is not something that happens; instead‚ news is what gets presented. We almost never see news events as they happen. Instead‚ we are shown the medias manufactured construction of the events. This essay aims to determine what news is‚
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Al-Jazeera – A new perspective? Since its birth as an independent TV station and new agency in 1996‚ Al-Jazeera has been viewed as a controversial‚ influential free-speaking news agency. A news agency uninfluenced by corporations‚ governments and so on. But why is Al-Jazeera so controversial? And is it really that different from BBC‚ CNN and other news agencies? Al-Jazeera was launched November 1st 1996‚ in Doha‚ Qatar‚ which still contains the headquarters. Its birth followed the closing of
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HND CREATIVE MEDIA PRODUCTION Unit 62 Television News Nassor Introduction NEWS Formats of TV News Programmes News Determining Factor Entertainment News Coverage Comparison References NEWS
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were unemployed‚ and many were starving. To solve this problem President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the New Deal to help the economy. The New Deal was a series of government programs designed to help get the nation out of the economic slump‚ and to save people from starving. Although there were many positive thing that came with the new deal there were also many negative things. The New Deal was not a success because it was unfair
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systems in America and how some are not safe and need to be replaced. This problem has been focused on the levee system in New Orleans. Many engineers and other people have asked the question whether or not the present levee system in New Orleans could withstand a huge wave or a direct hit from a powerful hurricane. These questions were answered when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans as a Category 3 hurricane which isn’t even the most powerful. After the hurricane hit the levee system failed and
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The Society of New France There were many early expeditions from Europe to North America‚ most in search of a Northwest Passage that linked the Atlantic to the Pacific‚ thus leading to the wealth of Asia . These excursions alerted Europeans of the resources North America offered and this attraction of fish and furs stimulated annual voyages from Europe to reap the benefits of the New World. As appealing as this discovery was‚ Europeans considered this New World a harsh environment and
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The New World was discovered by Spain’s Christopher Columbus in 1492. Many believed that the settlement of the Spanish in the New World was the original settlement. For many years before the arrival of the Europeans‚ various tribes were scattered all throughout the Americas. There was an estimated 10‚000 people living in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. America was not a virgin wilderness for nearly 12‚000 years. The Spanish were the first to arrive in the New World. They
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Mississippi river New Orleans has been the chief city of Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico’s busiest northern port since the early 1700 ’s. Originally founded by the French five feet below sea level and named La Nouvelle Orleans after Phillippe Duc D ’Orleans the city at the time was confined to what is now called the French Quarter. The French Quarter is laid out in a grid system. This grid system was put in place after a hurricane hit in 1722 and destroyed most of its structures. New Orleans was later
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Old and New Imperialism There were two different time periods where Imperialism occurred. The first wave of imperialism‚ called the "Old" Imperialism‚ lasted from around 1500 1800. The "New" Imperialism lasted from around 1870 1914. The three main differences that we will discuss today are the differences in economics‚ politics‚ and the motive behind all of this. The new and the old waves of imperialism were very much different through economics. The old economics was pretty much
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New Deal was introduced in the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in which established many programs after the Great Depression. It was made to provide aid to millions of people in the US because of the Great Depression. The New Deal is a success because the programs it created became very effect and made a lot of progress in helping people stood up from the sufferings they went through and start a new life. It created direct and immediate rate relief‚ and it made a lot of changes such as increasing
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