Is honesty truly the best policy? In the eyes of the satirical Tv show Frontline‚ telling the truth is an irrelevant commodity. Throughout the episodes “The Siege” and “Add sex and stir” composer Rob Sitch interprets the topic of telling the truth. Conveying how the truth is sacrificed‚ manipulated or contaminated in a behind the scene perspective. The truth is transferred for materialistic things such as ratings and competitive edge. Therefore depicting how news anchors abuse their role in telling
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Definitions: "Media ethics" merits an entry in A Dictionary of Media and Communication. This new paperback from Oxford University Press marks a handy starting place for policy makers‚ students and the general public to begin discussing media ethics. The entry offers a definition by description‚ and neither one of explanation nor one of delimitation. If you relied on a standard desk dictionary such as Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.)‚ you would have to cobble a definition from
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technologies have had an impact on journalism. Technology has not only changed the way our media is produced‚ but it has also changed how we receive‚ believe‚ read‚ contribute and discuss the news we are reading. Media tycoons have found themselves surrounded by millions of much smaller‚ yet potentially just as loud‚ media voices which are appearing more and more every day in the form of blogs on the Net. The introduction of new technologies and the change in journalism through the ages has had both positive
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TABLOIDIZATION DEFINING TABLOID: The word tabloid is often used in varying contexts. For example‚ tabloid is used to refer to the size and shape of a newspaper. However‚ as Sparks (2000) notes‚ not all tabloid- sized newspapers are tabloids in the pejorative sense of the word. For example: although tabloid in size‚ ‘Le Monde’ and the ‘Times’ are seen to be the very opposite in terms of content or design. The word tabloid is also used in discussion about television and radio (Biressi and Nunn
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THE WAY I SEE MY FUTURE CAREER IN JOURNALISM I have many loves in life‚ photography‚ music and writing‚ but eventually my love dries out. They say your career should be a pursuit that you never grow tired of‚ that your interest is so deep in you can never soak up too much knowledge of the subject. I have found for me‚ that love is journalism. When journalism is chosen as a career‚ society tends to have a stereotypical image of a group of photographers chasing celebrities. If not‚ then an image
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Since ancient times‚ people have realized how important of human rights are and they have been fighting for thousands years to achieve and complete them. The fight for human rights is still happening nowadays. Because of the rise of technology and media‚ freedom of press is as much important as freedom of speech‚ especially with journalists. The article “____” written by AUTHOR states that a new law has threaten many journalists in revealing the truth about a food industry. The author uses lots of
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This is definitely a new era. Whoever would have thought you would hear people diss “fact-based journalism” — or that we’d even see that phrase? But the dissing‚ and existence of that phrase do exist: 21st century America is moving into a new age where many people will often only go to websites with which they totally agree‚ listen or watch left and right wing talk shows that already share their views‚ read news stories they agree with‚ and tout factoids that fit their biases and ignore those that
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media‚ even though they can to a large degree set the news agenda. Media has expanded in its presence‚ becoming widespread on the Internet‚ perhaps monopolizing the domain‚ by becoming more powerful and more used than written‚ televised or radio journalism. The Presidents’ inability to control the press exposes their vulnerability and tends to question the actual power they can actually exert. All presidents‚ at some time or another‚ became frustrated at what they perceived as unfair treatment by
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just a few years’ time. These changes are particularly relevant in regards to the ones in media and journalism. Many mediums of news sources will be out of style or seemingly obsolete in ten or fifteen years’ time. These changes are already seen in the dying down of print newspaper production and the rush to the Internet to receive and put out prominent information. As members of the journalism world‚ we must be able to follow these new advances and be fully prepared to hold our own when what
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POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION (PGJMC) ASSIGNMENTS January Session: 2013 JMC-01 JMC-02 JMC-03 JMC-04 School of Journalism & New Media Studies Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi‚ New Delhi-110068 PGJMC ASSIGNMENTS Dear Learner‚ As explained in the Programme Guide‚ you need to submit one assignment in each course (JMC01‚ JMC-02‚ JMC-03 and JMC-04). All these are Tutor Marked Assignments (TMAs). Before attempting the assignments‚ please read the instructions
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