The Video Reporting Of The Boulie Tacks Protest Ride

Within Joyce Nelson’s essay, “TV News: A Structure of Reassurance”, Nelson criticizes the TV news structure that perpetually disconnects current events from their historical background through comforting anchorpeople partnered with advanced technology to create a TV program that minimizes the important implications of current events. Though lacking the amount of information that a print news publication can maintain, the TV news can convey immediate information through technological advances of modern TV equipment to allow the medium to remain competitive. The façade of in-the-moment international information broadcasted directly to viewers enables anchorpeople to maintain the feeling of immediateness, keeping the viewers believing the program

With regards to Walter Lippman’s quote in 1922, it is fair to dispute that ‘News is just someone’s version of events’. Due to the changing society over the past years since the quote and the increased number of factors to consider, it raises the question of how precise, accurate and relevant this quotation is in the present day. However, some factors must be considered when debating the credibility of the quotation: ‘news is just someone’s version of events,’ as it can be affected by a number of reasons. These can include factually based stories, changing market conditions, partisan and ‘churnalism’; more specifically- ‘flat earth’ stories. Therefore, when considering these factors affecting news stories, it is can be argued that news isn’t ‘someone’s version of events’, because the article is either purely fact and leaves no room for opinion, or the version of events or news story has been manipulated due to changing market conditions or ‘churnalism’. However, when a news story is initially sought, it is also believed that a reporter should find a story and that the news story is true and a chronological order of the events in which the reporter witnessed at the time, furthermore supporting the quotation. On top of this, when biased media organisations include their opinion or political stance, this can also be argued that it is ‘their ‘version of events.’

Due to the results of the Leveson inquiry, much has changed for the ways in which the British Press must work within the parameters of Media law. The inquiry has left much of the public untrusting and suspicious of journalism as a practice, and after the publishing of Leveson’s report, it is as though they are just waiting for another slip-up by media institutions.

For this paper, students were to write an analysis of three articles in how they relate to each other based on their commonality. They were to also examine their differences by looking at quantitative and qualitative data from each article. The instructor notes that the basis of their thesis must come from one commonality that each article has as they relate to one another (such as an article dealing with issues of discrimination or religion etc.). The goals and objectives of this paper was to encompass all the skills and knowledge gained throughout the course of the semester which were but are not limited to: critical reading, annotating and outlining, quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, and critiquing of other articles. This paper served as the student’s final assignment for the course.

A third claim is that while economic and political factors establish the broad context for press performance, it is journalistic norms and practices historically emerging out of a particular national journalistic field that directly shape news content and form. As Bourdieu insists, a field is a “microcosm with its own laws ... [which is to say] that what happens in it cannot be understood by looking only at external factors.” A field’s “rules of the game” are established when the field is founded, and once “routinized” tend to persist over

The method chosen for this portfolio is a semi-structured interview, providing a set of questions that was pre-prepared, also providing a flexibility to ask more questions if required with an undergraduate from Royal Holloway, University of London. This qualitative portfolio will draw upon media articles, by employing the use of content analysis which aims to replicate the analysis of texts. Using a qualitative and quantitative dimension, by examining use of languages such as metaphors, connotations, loaded words or terms, and emotive or sensationalist language, and, their intended effects.

Fishman shows that news is a product of negotiated interactions among newsmakers and news sources, through the interactions and reliance on official sources, news organizations both invoke and reproduce prevailing conceptions of serious crime (McGuken, 1987). By stressing that both denotation and connotation are contingently defined and socially negotiated, Hall shifts the usage of these terms from referring to levels of meaning inherent

It reminded the public of the press’ credibility—that they do not make up stories, and that they work hard to obtain information for their stories and deliver this information in its simplest form so the general public can easily understand. The panelists of the forum—that took place after the film showing—helped stress out this

In contrast to research on the protest paradigm and other marginalization devices that have a tendency toward negative coverage of protests, the work of Harlow and Johnson (2011) has suggested that new forms of media have created opportunities for legitimation of protest activity. Harlow and Johnson’s content analysis of coverage of the Egyptian Revolution protests by the New York Times, the Twitter feed of New York Times reporter Nick Kristof, and Global Voices, an international network of bloggers and citizen journalists, found that while the Times coverage stuck to the protest paradigm, Kristof and Global Voices diverged from the paradigm. The New York Times failed to fully explain why the protests were occurring, relied on routines and focused on the drama, spectacle, and violence of the protests rather than the protester’s grievances. The New York Times also used more official sources than citizen sources despite having reporters in Cairo. Some stories portrayed the protesters in a negative light by blaming them for travel delays and oil prices (Harlow & Johnson, 2011). Global Voices, on the other hand, was able to provide the context that the New York Times did not. Global Voices was more likely to use legitimizing and accountability frames, to portray the protesters positively and to use citizen

In Duguid and Brown’s article ‘The Social Life of Documents’, the authors make mention of how documents usually tend to raise more debate than suppress it. This is true, as there can be an innumerable amount of possible interpretations for one document alone. However, while there is no ‘right’ interpretation of a document, there has to be a set of standards to abide by to judge all of these competing ideologies. This is where the use of sound bites and images used in news media tend to be a source of debate. First of all, sound bites are defined as ‘film segments within a news story that show someone speak without interruption’, while image bites are defined as ‘film

The Calais migrant crisis has divided the perceptions of people in the United Kingdom, with various newspapers creating negative stereotypes of the migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. This can be understood by (Fairclough, 2014), who argues the perspectives and ideology in the British media are overwhelmingly in favour of existing power-holders, like governmental figures and the upper class. Connections between language and power in the media can be revealed through discourse analysis. It can be argued that discourse analysis can help reveal some of the hidden and out of sight values, perspectives and positions (Paltridge, 2012). This can be echoed by (Rogers, 2004, pg.6) who says: “discourses

I will be analysing David Cameron’s second term as Prime Minister, as this allows the government to ‘be more accountable[1]’ and of the different media perceptions of each Prime Minister; in particular, the newspaper outlets. For unlike television or radio which are legally circumscribed to be impartial and unprejudiced, newspaper’s have no such constraint. The large amounts of time and energy senior politicians devote to ingratiating themselves to them is indicative of how influential these newspapers are capable of being. This is clearly seen even in the relatively recent efforts made by David Cameron in meeting Rupert Murdoch, the proprietor of ‘the News of the World, The Times, and most famously, The Sun. An even more evident example presents itself during the run-up to the 1997 general election, when the newly elected prime-minister, Tony Blair, from the U.K to

This document will present a media outlet story. The components of media outlet will be dissected and discussed in detail.

Research methods in media studies have proven to be essential assets in the process of analysis and evaluation. There are many different approaches to researching broadcast media and each is as effective as the next. There are some methods more suited to certain topics than others and it is expected to know the most effective method for each topic to enhance the validity and reliability of the research. In this essay I will be answering the question, ‘How do we research broadcast media?’ I will be evaluating and discussing some of these research methods and how essential a correct method can prove to be in academic research in broadcast media.

The authors display these types of media in a diagram (p. 118) in order to organize and visualize the way in which different outlets and journalism can be located in a continuum between open access and closed access (to audiences) and the media as an observer or a participant (that can be used as a weapon).