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    Phillips believes that journalistic writing has to be based on facts. For the short time that Twain was a news reporter all he did was make up facts, and exaggerate stories To the point where they were no longer true. Phillips is very strict on the quality of information, and where it came from. Phillips would hate Twain's work as a news reporter. In the story “The Simple Commandments of Journalistic Ethics” On page 715 lines 10 through 21 Phillips states “In journalistic usage, you shall be as accurate

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    In his journalistic investigation into the depths of industrial agriculture, Michael Pollan analyzes “what it is we’re eating, where it came from, how it found its way to our table, and what it really cost” in an effort to provide both himself and his readers with an educated answer to the surprisingly complex question of “what should we have for dinner?” (Pollan 411, 1). However, what appears as a noble attempt to develop a fuller understanding of the personal, social, and environmental implications

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    JOURNALISTIC AND COMMERCIAL NEWS VALUES Journalistic and Commercial News Values News Organizations as Patrons of an Institution and Market Actors SIGURD ALLERN Why do some events fill the columns and air time of news media, while others are ignored? Why do some stories make banner headlines whereas others merit no more than a few lines? What factors decide what news professionals consider newsworthy? Such questions are often answered – by journalists and media researchers alike – with references

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    JOURNALISTIC AND COMMERCIAL NEWS VALUES Journalistic and Commercial News Values News Organizations as Patrons of an Institution and Market Actors SIGURD ALLERN Why do some events fill the columns and air time of news media, while others are ignored? Why do some stories make banner headlines whereas others merit no more than a few lines? What factors decide what news professionals consider newsworthy? Such questions are often answered – by journalists and media researchers alike – with references

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    In my opinion, Billionaires’ Tea Party does not meet the journalistic norms of objectivity and separation of reporting from advocacy. The producers of this movie have a clear agenda, which is to expose the Tea Party as an organization full of ill-informed and extremely biased Americans who are hypnotized by some of America’s wealthiest businessmen into believing that liberals in American government are seeking to limit their constitutional rights. The director inserts his own political bias into

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    proposes that the television has impacted the journalistic field in a wider and strong way that other cultural transformations did before within the cultural field. Doing so, says Bourdieu, television and journalistic field have also triggered transformations in other fields upon which journalism has an impact. As it is performed, the journalistic field tends to reinforce the economic (commercial) field instead of the pure one. Following Bourdieu, the journalistic field was settled during the 19th Century

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    characteristic of journalistic narration, including a spiral plot structure, repetition, and the early reveal of the main plot point. These elements also serve to craft a nonlinear narrative and organizational structure through Marquez’s twofold utilization of each device. By basing the two contradictory styles in the same key literary elements, Marquez reveals their complementary nature that together forms the narrative of the novella. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Marquez juxtaposes a journalistic narration

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    occurring in an era will affect the publics it served (Pavlik 2000). Technology has always affected journalism since its beginning. The use of telegram and then telephone besides other inventions as part of news processes are examples of previous journalistic adaptation of technologies into its practice. Similar to other earlier forms of technology that have altered journalism in the past, the arrival of the Internet and the technologies it carry has further enhanced contemporary journalism. Media

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    away from journalistic balance and impartiality can be observed through articles like “ “If White People Thought About Race Like People of Color”, “29 Things White People Ruined”, and “35 Questions Black People Have for White People”. Though these titles and content associated with them are by no means negative, it would be difficult to find content like this across other news outlets. It is likewise hard to say that it adheres to traditional journalistic norms of impartiality and journalistic balance

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    Differences Between Literary and Journalistic Narration All stories have a time line of when events happen within a story. In William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” he uses literary narration to portray when events happen in his story, while also leaving the reader to infer when other events happen within the story. In Dick Pothier and Thomas J. Gibbons Jr.’s text “A Woman’s Wintery Death Leads to a Long-Dead Friend” they us journalistic narration. Journalistic narration tells exactly what

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