Analysis Of Discourse Community: Broadcast News Journalists

Having served nearly thirty years at CBS News, Mr. Goldberg had earned a reputation as one of the most original writers and thinkers in broadcast journalism. However, when he observed his own industry, he realized the liberal media had completely missed their mission to give honest news. After years of sharing his observations and promoting more balanced reportings, Goldberg soon realized that no one listened because they believed they were doing the right thing. The liberal bias continued, therefore Bernard Goldberg decided to take the situation into his own hands and expose the distortion of the media himself. Goldberg’s breathtaking and shocking best seller book, Bias, reveals the close-mindedness of the news culture and their mission to entertain rather than share facts.

When watching or listing to a baseball game you can tell that the broadcasters are very knowledgeable about the sport, each team, players, etc.. However, this is something that just doesn’t happen over night since the complexity of this specific genre system inside the broadcasting discourse community. Remember that certain criteria of discourse communities according to novelist John Swales, “A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals” (Swales 220). These public goals can be achieved by genre systems. That’s why there has to be a lot of preparation by both the broadcasters and even more from those that work behind the scenes for the team to make this genre system function properly inside the broadcasting discourse community.

In a general sense society derives much of their beliefs and indifferences from stories that are covered in the media. If the stories are being reported biased, how can we, as a society, see the whole picture? The author's purpose is to inform readers about the different biases that news and media sway by and to provide evidence that proves instances when these biases have weakened the validity of the reporter's story. "Journalist are like dogs-whenever anything moves, they begin to bark." (Gladstone, 2011/2013, P.25)

The mass media is responsible for providing the general public with information regarding current events and issues that are occurring in the world. In addition, journalists have the ability to influence and impact individuals’ ideologies about certain topics by the way they present the information, either in a positive or negative manner (Beckford 1994). On the other hand, scholarship strives to methodologically and critically study and analyze a phenomenon in order to present factually correct information. Furthermore, this paper will discuss the difference between journalism and scholarship, and will use the tragic incident that occurred at Waco as an example to illustrate each fields differences in discussing/reporting the events that unfolded.

In today’s society, remaining connected and knowledgeable of current events and the newest trends is vital to staying ahead in business, education, and social standing. This information is supplied to everyone through the internet, newspapers, television, and radio. One can tune into stations such as CNN, NBC, Fox News, Al-Jazeera, and many others (“SQs of Media Outlets”). In order to meet the needs of viewers, readers, and listeners, the ideal media system would contain accurate, quick information, with a purely impartial view on the facts as they are known. However, this modern media system has not maintained an objective view, pushing opinionated and slanted reporting onto the population in order to create profit and gain customers. The exploitation of information media for personal gain has created a toxic and inaccurate present, constant in today’s society.

In this era of political polarization and increasingly partisan news outlets, it has become simply for people to find press sources that agree with their worldview. However, even in these situations it is important to consider how mainstream sources choose to frame and issue. The journalism industry depends upon conventions and those conventions can help to shape and influence coverage (Richardson, 2007). Furthermore the language choices that journalists made influence how the public perceives coverage (Richardson, 2007). In the example of the coverage of Kim Davis the argument has multiple stakeholders, yet journalism’s traditions leave the expectation that the debate will be geared toward conflict (McCaffrey & Keys, 2000; Levasseur, Sawyer,

Media have extreme power in setting cultural guidelines and in shaping political debates. It is vital that news media, along with other news outlets, are challenged to be fair and accurate. The first step in challenging biased news coverage is documenting bias. For years, people have accused news co-operations of airing bias stories which producers and editors are still denying to this day. It is impossible for journalists not to air a story free of bias, that doesn’t mean the news is wrong or irrelevant just because it is influenced by bias. Even if a reporter tries to report a story honestly and fairly to the best of their ability, they’re still biased because human beings are biased by nature. Bias in the news is inevitable, and although

The news has a responsibility to provide accurate information to the American people. However, journalists are only human, and it is important to take note of any biases present in their writing. W.L. Bennett is one scholar who addressed this concern, arguing that journalism has four main media biases: personalization, dramatization, fragmentation, and authority-disorder bias (Bennett, 2012). While Bennett voices concerns of adverse consequences, scholars Ozen Bas and Maria Elizabeth Grabe argue that biases like personalization can help people with lower education levels retain information better (Bas & Grabe, 2015). Referencing two news clips and an article, this essay argues that media biases rampant across platforms have good intent to get

The basic purpose of mass media is to provide the public with easy access to reliable and accurate information, yet there is a shift in priorities, as coverage focuses more on what the audience wants to hear rather than actual facts. This focus can become dangerous when biased westernized

The process of making news encompasses selections by newsmakers, who tell the world as they see. Journalists’ account, therefore, is at best a representation of events. There are ways for bias to be inserted into news stories, and they rests on the frame media institutions choose to follow. Meanwhile, the act of selection is affected by various elements, which dictate journalists to work out values of news. To conclude, it can be seen that news continue to be biased once the present state of journalism

The business role of American media has an influence on how journalists act toward both comments and UGC. The audience provides the media with power and their income by consuming the content they produce (Gans, 2003). The media typically accept the limits of what their audience will embrace and what their advertisers will fiscally support (Gans, 2003). Therefore, citizens have at least some sway over what appears in the news media; although the public, at times, is not willing to exercise that power (Rivers, Schramm, & Christians, 1969). In addition, citizens do not necessarily seek to grasp that control at the larger societal level; however, they are much more willing to do so at the local level, such as community media, regarding issues that are important to them (Gans, 2003).

The general population consists of seven billion people across the earth. The majority of the individuals partake in receiving knowledge from those whose job it is to relay pertinent day to day information to the general public. This minority is known as the mass media, and it is much larger than simply journalism. The mass media is the newspaper, television, Video games, novels, textbooks, and social media. Essentially any medium that is consumed excessively by the majority public is known as a mass media. The most important of the mass media's is journalism and reporting; the relaying of information from the reporters to the population. For years, controversy was a serious part of the debate for what could not be shown, what could be, how far journalists are allowed to go to get their information. Then, the SPJ: Code of Ethics emerged, giving guidelines for journalists and reporters on how to seize, utilize, and properly report on subjects at hand. However, journalists and reporters time and time again have deserted their code of conduct. For instance, the New Republic’s Stephen Glass did this via bypassing fact checkers and creating fictitious news stories. This led to the downfall of the New Republic’s reputation, along with ending the career of Stephen Glass. Though the exact same is not being done with reporting politics, their use of power has become an arbitrary system, where they decide what suits their own political standing and showing the information in such a

The media is communication channels which information, entertainment, and instruction are published throughout the area. Media comprises both print and broadcast medium such as newspapers, magazine, television, radio, and internet. In fact, the media designed particularly to declare, enlighten, and supplement the lives of the community. In the past, verification the accuracy and objectivity was the most important quality of every reporter but this morality has changed, according to the Al Franken; “The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover,” since remuneration became an essential terminus of people including reporters and journalists. Therefore, nowadays, most partisan reporters choose to broadcast

It is a hot summer evening, and you are sitting on your couch reading the daily newspaper, scanning the stories that tell you what the world is like today. The lines paint a clear picture of what is happening or what has happened. Sorry! but that’s not how things work. Like other types of journalistic media, newspapers do not always tell the truth in a reliable and trustworthy fashion. As with other everyday items, the purpose is there, but it is not always akin to what we truly need. Brooke Gladstone references these notions often in her book The Influencing Machine. In short, Gladstone shows that the media has a much-needed purpose, like informing us on governmental decisions and briefing the people on new issues; However, this function is meaningless in a society in which dishonest media outlets are more popular, and thusly more profitable, than more honest and reliable sources. Journalistic media today is not what you thought it was; It may have a purpose we cannot live without, but it is often unreliable and dishonest.

The research for this article was conducted within a framework of Framing theory. The theory was first put forward by a Canadian-American sociologist Erving Goffman. Media framing, to put it bluntly, is a term that points to a presence of a certain bias in any media outlets’ output. All choices made in a newsroom collectively form the frame through which media decides to show the world to the audiences. Everything matters: Covering one event and ignoring another, covering one event more than the other, deciding what words to use to cover an event, what photographs or video clips to include, whom to give a voice, etc. At the same time, framing theory goes far beyond newsroom policies. Framing is not necessarily a delibirate choice. Journalists themselves look at the world through frames: their education, upbringing, gender, ethnical background, knowledge of the issue, and so on. Audience members apply their own frames as well, not just to media content, but to everything they hear and see.