The mass media is the means by which the majority of the public gets its daily national and global news updates. It is supposed to keep us informed and be a solid foundation from which we can form our own opinions. Because of this‚ it is unfortunate that the media in the United States have an extreme bias on political topics. Being able to gather political information and facts about the government’s actions is critical in a democracy‚ however‚ our market based media system makes it difficult to
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New Media Convergence and Audience Fragmentation and Programme Content in International Broadcasting The new media technologies have been referred to as the communication revolution due to the immense changes they have brought to mass communication and social lifestyles in past decade or so. The expression ‘new media’ has been in use since the 1960s and has had to encompass an expanding and diversifying set of applied communication technologies such the it is somehow impracticable to tell just
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Why Are the Traditional Media Companies Losing Money? Why are the traditional media companies losing money? This question has been asked by many media scholars because the current news reports that many traditional media companies face bankruptcy. However‚ many people do not realize these companies deal with the hard times. If we take newspaper as an example‚ we can see so many newspapers that are duplicated and published every day and some of them are free which means we can read them without
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Today television channels and newspapers are making fast money by cashing on the news in wrong sense and wrong way. In the race to become more popular and to make money they have broken all the limits media must follow while serving to build a healthy and progressive society. They have no respect for the sentiments and ethics of the people and land whom they serve to‚ with their immense power to influence the massses they just make judgment like a true dictator rather than a good advice of a true
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of Phoenix Material Media Convergence Worksheet Write brief 250- to 300-word answers to each of the following: |Questions |Answers | |What is meant by the term media |Media convergence means that the lines are getting blurred between the traditional forms | |convergence with regard to technology‚ |of media and they are almost becoming one. Media convergence plays an important
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Culture Impact of Media There is an old saying”Man is a social animal”‚ which means beyond other requirements such as food and shelter‚ man has another fundamental need and that is‚ need of communication with each other. The urge of communication is a basic one and in our contemporary civilization‚ it has become a necessity for survival. In order to facilitate communication‚ man has established several means which have developed from time to time such as sending messages‚ letters‚ telephone
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Free Media in Pakistan Communication has always been a special part of a society. It always played a part of spreading information. In early times when people were unable to communicate they used to raise some specific sounds which had some meanings in them. Then people communicate and felt the need of spreading the information and happenings from place to place. For this respect the first evolutionary source introduced was “Newspaper”. People used to publish such news which they wanted to share
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Studying media is important for several reasons‚ especially today when we have the ability to look back and see how far ideas and technologies have come and where they are headed. As Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi suggests in her article‚ "Forms of Media as Ways of Knowing"‚ examining history and how media are utilized and changing in the past and in the present can help us see how far we have come. It allows us to appreciate the forms of media we have today and how it is being shaped and controlled
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Hard News Vs. Soft News News stories are basically divided into two types: hard news and soft news. Hard new generally refers to up-to-the-minute news and events that are reported immediately‚ while soft news is background information or human-interest stories. Politics‚ war‚ economics and crime used to be considered hard news‚ while arts‚ entertainment and lifestyles were considered soft news. Hard news This is the term journalists use to refer to “news of the day.” Hard news is a chronicle
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THE “MEDIA” EFFECT Our society today is littered with crime‚ whether it is violent street crime or white-collar crime. There are crimes committed everyday. Some crimes go unnoticed while others do not. Those criminals that are caught will be subject to the consequences of our justice system. Along with this justice comes media attention. Media attention would be any coverage or reports on a certain crime. This can range from newspaper articles to the local news channel doing an extensive investigation
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