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Final Lecture Flashcards

1
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The Corporation
News Chapter
(video)

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2 reporters from Fox News want to report on Monsantos but Fox says no

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OutFoxed “Rupert Murdoph’s War on Journalism”

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Left-leaning documentary on Fox News channel/Corporation
They reach billions of ppl (4.7)
There’s political talk, but not much real news
Very right leaning channel

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The case of Fox and Fox News

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All news and commentary has a formula
o Breaking down “the Wall” – between corporate and news division
• The news agency is a marketing construct
o Not new – see pre-1950’s journalism in the US
o Fox (News Corp.) ≠ Fox News

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The case of Fox and Fox News:

2 views

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• Fox News promoting a conservative agenda
 Political entity
• Fox (News Corp.) out to expand and profit from an integrative global media empire
 Economic entity

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Issues portrayed in Spotlight
1 Issue
2 Dangerous story

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Issue: Alienating The Subscriber Base

Dangerous story: when he advises his reporters to “Start ignoring everybody”
- Pulitzer – A newspaper should have no friends
• Cause if you do, you’ll treat them differently than you would others

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Issues portrayed in Spotlight
3 Stand alone
4 Finding the big story
5 Media & Law working together

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“A paper has to stand alone”
o Gives you a sense of the pressure going on which journalists operate
Finding the big story: The System
o The institutional corruption – that’s involved behind it

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Spotlight - teacher notes

Comment in the beginning – has the Globe changed since it’s been bought by NYT

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Subtle way of asking if autonomy has been affected at all

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Spotlight - teacher notes

Trusting the source?

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Trusting the source and gathering evidence to see who they believe

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Spotlight - teacher notes

Lots to figure out legally

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legal aspects; lawyer taking on the catholic church and making settlements but it really undermines the process in making it all public

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Spotlight - teacher notes

Takes an outsider

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if you’re an insider, it’s a much more difficult position to take on the church

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Spotlight - teacher notes

Next part of movie

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we see that it’s the editor that really pushes the story instead of the journalists

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Spotlight - teacher notes

2nd chance

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The Globe gets a second chance at breaking the story

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Spotlight - teacher notes

compartmentalize

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There’s a way to compartmentalize to keep the story secret

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Spotlight - teacher notes

Holding a story to a particular date

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9/11 forces them to hold off on reporting/gathering info
Then xmas pushes it further back
- Cultural content in which everything occurs in the background
o Alienating the subscriber base

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Lessons of Spotlight

Big stories

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The biggest stories are systemic

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Lessons of Spotlight

Systemic stories

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Systemic stories tend to be met with internal disbelief (within the newsroom)
o Reporters tend to think that they wouldn’t be there if there wasn’t legitimacy behind them. So when you look at systemic stories, it tends to be something bigger

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Lessons of Spotlight

Lobbying

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Editors are lobbied by the powerful/interested/involved

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Lessons of Spotlight

Powerful players

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Savvy & powerful players (ppl that are influential) will tap internal dissent
o Individuals associated with the Catholic church
o Creating a wedge in the newsroom
• Role of Marty Baron as an outsider
 He’s a non-Bostonian, Jewish
 Better positioned to represent the story

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Lessons of Spotlight

Outsiders

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The outsider has an advantage
o He’s not intimidated by all of this – there’s a natural inclination to realize your messing with something that’s really big

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Lessons of Spotlight

Producing and constraining news

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Journalists produce news (have flexibility in doing so), but current events constrain journalists (ex. 9/11)

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Lessons of Spotlight

Challenging the community

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Who but the city’s newspaper could challenge a community pillar like the Catholic church in Boston

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Lessons of Spotlight

Source credibility

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Source credibility is essential

o They finally had the resources to get behind all the accusations

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Lessons of Spotlight

Exposure

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Chas Kaiser (ex. WSJ/NYT): “The Globe investigation… indirectly led to national/international exposure”

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An Inconvenient Truth 2006

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Profile of Al Gore

o How global warming is bad and a serious thing

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Cool It 2010

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Profile: Bjorn Lomburg

How they “debunk” parts of Inconvenient Truth on their numbers and usage of photos etc.

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A special case in media and in problem solving: Ecological issues
• “Environment”
• “Ecology”

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“Environment” – surroundings
“Ecology” – the branch of biology that deals with relations between living organisms and their environment
o Interconnectedness
• You can never do just one thing – you can build a dam, dig a pipe etc., but that effects many other things
o Systems theory
• Ecology leads us to think in terms of systems

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A special case in media and in problem solving: Ecological issues

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Ecological critiques (critiques of something from an ecological perspective) are attacks on political and economic arrangements
- Ecological issues that become acted upon or discussed, become inherently political
Ex. If I want all cars to be able to drive 40mph, I’m attacking your right to buy big cars

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A special case in media and in problem solving: Ecological issues
• Types of problems

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Ecological problems often are individual or democratic problems rather than technical problems
o EX. we know how to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but people don’t want to
A lot of times its not a matter of scientists coming up with solutions, and more so that we struggle with what we wanna do

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A special case in media and in problem solving: Ecological issues
• Values
• Democracy

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Many of these issues are about values
o They’re subjective rather than objective
Democracy is slow to respond to these issues

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A special case in media and in problem solving: Ecological issues
• Causes and effects

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Causes and effects of ecological issues may be far removed from one another
o Something in China or Africa can effect us
o The farther the more difficult – to solve problems or get people to pay attention to it

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A special case in media and in problem solving: Ecological issues
• Overall difficulty

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This is why it’s so difficult reporting on climate – these problems have a lot of features that make them seem too big/ineffective
• It’s hard to categorize some things

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Crisis vs. Crunch

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Crisis
o	Event – hurricane, fire etc. 
o	EASY for media 
Crunch
o	Incremental
o	Gradual
o	DIFFICULT for media
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Thresholds of perception

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Perception requires crossing some sort of boundary
o Ex. when is it safe to cross a street or putting pressure on paper until it rips
Human perception has a sensory, often visual, bias associated with it
o Ex. you can’t see CO2 emissions or feel the ocean warmer

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Al Jazzera video (self notes)

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• About Paris climate accord
• Nothing in the media about climate change
o Trump said he would pull out of the agreement
• More about players involved and less about the actual planet
• It’s all about doom and gloom – there’s fear
• Barriers to climate change are not technological, they’re political
• Standing Rock tribal community stood up to big oil companies when they tried to stop them from digging the pipeline and only got media when the police used force

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