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Question 1

what is media?

Answer 1

media is any message conveyed through visuals, language, and sound.

Question 2

what are exmaples of media?

Answer 2

movies, songs, tv, radio, social media,

Question 4

what are the 5 key concepts of media

Answer 4

1. all media messages are constructed
2. all media messages are constructed using creative language
3. different people may experience the same messages differently
4. The media have embedded values and point of views
5. most media messages are to gain profit

Question 5

what is Timeliness?

Answer 5

The word news means exactly that - things which are new. Topics that are current are good news. Consumers are used to receiving the latest updates, and there is so much news that old news is quickly discarded.

Question 6

Human Interest

Answer 6

Human interest stories appeal to emotion. They aim to evoke responses such as amusement or sadness. Television news programs often place a humorous or quirky story at the end of the show to finish on a feel-good note. Newspapers often have a dedicated area for offbeat or interesting items.

Question 6

Prominence

Answer 6

Famous people get more coverage just because they are famous. If you break your arm it won’t make the news, but if the Queen of England breaks her arm it’s big news.

Question 6

Proximity

Answer 6

Stories that happen near to us have more significance. The closer the story to home, the more newsworthy it is. For someone living in France, a major plane crash in the USA has a similar news value to a small plane crash near Paris.

Question 7

parts of editorals

Answer 7

lables/captions
sybomlism

Question 7

Significance

Answer 7

The number of people affected by the story is important. A plane crash in which hundreds of people died is more significant than a crash killing a dozen.

Question 8

analogy

Answer 8

Cartoonists may compare a simple image or concept to a more complex situation, in order to help the viewer understand the situation in a different way.

Question 8

Irony

Answer 8

A cartoonist may express an opinion on a topic by highlighting the difference between the way things are and the way things should be, or are expected to be.

Question 9

Exaggeration/Humor:

Answer 9

Cartoonists visually overstate or magnify a problem, physical feature, or habit. For instance, they might draw a person with a big nose, bushy eyebrows, large ears, baldness, etc.

Question 9

what is a bias

Answer 9

bias is prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usally in a way considered to be unfair.

Question 10

the 7 type of bias

Answer 10

omission
placement
photos
names and titles
statistics
source control
voice/tone

Question 11

omission

Answer 11

An editor can express a bias by choosing to use or not to use a specific news item. Within a given story, some details can be ignored, and others included, to give readers or viewers a different opinion about the events reported.

Question 12

placement

Answer 12

Readers of papers judge first page stories to be more significant than those buried in the back. Television and radio newscasts run the most important stories first and leave the less significant for later. Where a story is placed, therefore, influences what a reader or viewer thinks about its importance.

Question 13

photos

Answer 13

Some pictures flatter a person, others make the person look unpleasant. A paper can choose photos to influence opinion about, for example, a candidate for election. On television, the choice of which visual images to display is extremely important. The captions newspapers run below photos are also potential sources of bias.

Question 14

names and title

Answer 14

News media often use labels and titles to describe people, places, and events. A person can be called an “ex-con” or be referred to as someone who “served time twenty years ago for a minor offense.” Whether a person is described as a “terrorist” or a “freedom fighter” is a clear indication of editorial bias.

Question 15

statistics

Answer 15

To make a disaster seem more spectacular (and therefore worthy of reading about), numbers can be inflated. “A hundred injured in air crash” can be the same as “only minor injuries in air crash,” reflecting the opinion of the person doing the counting.

Question 16

word choice

Answer 16

The words and tone the journalist uses can influence the story.
Using positive or negative words can change how we feel about the news story. We can also be influenced by a news broadcaster’s tone of voice.

Question 17

source control

Answer 17

The words and tone the journalist uses can influence the story.
Using positive or negative words can change how we feel about the news story. We can also be influenced by a news broadcaster’s tone of voice.