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social media sites being used as news sources. Protecting the freedom of speech on social media will spread important worldwide news like wildfire, informing users of social media sites about current events quickly and expands the knowledge people have on situations happening in different countries that can’t be or aren’t reported by news reporters. Social media takes up a considerable portion of people’s lives. A myriad of people use social media; this makes news stories and articles on social media

they are informed on what is happening in the world. The news is something that so many people rely on and check constantly. What people aren’t aware of however, is that so much of what they are being told is a lie. False news is a growing and constant issue in today’s society. Fake news spreads rapidly, changing people's views on the world constantly. However, putting an end to this media trend has proved to be a struggle. Fake news comes from countless places and spreads at an alarmingly

Jervand Asatrjan MAN 6766 1. Do the media today report the news or distort the news? Do we watch news or entertainment? What do you think CNN’s role, or the BBC’s should be? What about Al-Jazeera? Is news reporting today objective or is it necessarily culturally biased? In my opinion, media today distort the news. In the book “Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News” author Bernard Goldberg discusses how CBS distorts the news and possible motives behind such a choice (Goldberg, 2014)

media delivering the news to the public is to gather and report news that is true, fair, honest, accurate, non-biased and non-critical. The news keeps us informed about what is going on in and around the world, investigating stories and delivering information to a large and diverse audience. The media channels news through television, radio, newspapers, internet, and other products that reach people, groups, and societies. Not only does the news play an investigative

newspapers are vanishing duo to the emergence of internet and audience migration. When most of the news organizations are struggling in digital age, there is a new form of news media growing up on the web that is BuzzFeed. This essay will firstly point out the analysis of this news source and then discuss the influence and contribution of BuzzFeed in the public sphere. BuzzFeed is a rapidly growing social news and entertaining website, which founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti (BuzzFeed, n.d.). The majority

Twitter accounts of three journalists on Twitter to collect the required data. Moreover, this method is more suitable because it is creating an observation on the news posted by the newspapers that we have selected. Furthermore, it is important to note down that how journalists are publishing the breaking news or retweet the breaking news from newspapers or other journalists. From a review of previous research shows that many of the researchers relied on the content analysis because it gives accurate

1. Compare and Contrast In watching the news, viewers seldom realise that so many different factors influence the individual bulletin. Stories are often not a clean-cut cross section of the day’s top stories, and there is no specific ‘ultimate guide’ to creating a news bulletin. According to Boyd et al (2008, p150), item order eventually becomes instinct rather than the work of a formula. It is all-dependent on situation, as well as the individual company, their method of approach and even the individual

colonist crossing the Atlantic Ocean to today’s mass media. Even before we were a country we had printers and journalists writing and printing stories for the people. Looking back, we can divide journalism history into different time periods and see how news reporting developed over time. Some of these time periods include the Colonial Period which spanned from when the first Pilgrims came to America in the mid 1600’s till the 1760’s. Other periods include the Revolution period which picked up from the

Flawed News and Public Opinions TV Journalism has been degraded to the point in which true factual and informative reporting free of bias has been replaced with short news bytes centered and focused on its entertainment value alone. Within the political process, this has mostly served as a disservice to both politicians and the general public audience. Edward J Epstein published a book entitled “News from Nowhere” in which he observed NBC’s news department and how decisions were made on what was

found myself more easily distracted comparing to when watching a television program or news story. It is much easier to pay attention to the later. Moreover, listening to the radio requires a person to use their own imagination more vividly. The audience has to take in what is being described and create their own personal picture of the event. Television seems to give us a more realistic understanding of what it is news anchor is talking about as the consumers can be shown pictures or film footage of