Quiz 9 Flashcards
ted koppel
- 1979 –> talked about the Iranian hostage crisis through “Night Line” by ABC
- Plain, direct language
- serious journalists like Edward Murrow
- called out FOX reporters like Sean Hanley + Bill Oreily
- “exchange of ideas without exchanging speech….” (quote)
faults of the media
- sensationalism
- algorithm-driven journalism
- Focus on conflict
- Focus on the trivial
- Sanewashing
- Ideological bias + polarization
- Insufficient Diversity
sensationalism
over the top rhetoric in an effort to sell and profit
- yellow journalism (tabloids) + pulitzer vs hearst
-“if it bleeds it leads” –> reporting on violence in a dramatic way
algorithm driven journalism
more likely to be shared than focus on fact
BUZZfeedification: listicles, celebrities, gossip, memees clickbait
tiktok
focus on conflict
amuse ourselves to death
–> trump administration using controversy to distract from own policy positions
- WAG THE DOG: film claiming that the war in kosovo was used to distract from clinton’s affair with an intern
focus on the trivial
- politics: whose leading in the “horse race” rather than examining policy
- soft news vs hard news
“dont look up” film is a good critique
sanewashing
News providing a distorted of false view of incomprehensible language
donald trump: headlines attempting to trainslate his bs
AP –> september talk about addressing health costs
ideological bias
- prism of ideological bias
- picking facts that match agenda
- One America News network –> transgender penguins
35 million american homes viewed (1/2 daily)
insufficient diversity
POC = 40%
more men in newsroom
Younger newsroom employees better represent population
Newsroom employment
2005-2023 –> dropped 73%…266 jobs like major layoffs)
News desert
places with limited local news
208 counties in the US with no news outlets
1563 w one news service
Consequences:
- less oversight of public institutions
- less public unnderstanding of local issues
- less sense of community participation
Boston Globe situation
threatens to close by the times (owner)
forms unions
union accepts budget/wage cuts
Times sold to John Henry (RS billionaire)
SATIRE
laughs but holding up the highest ideals
- light hipocracy, checking facts, telling truths, comfort afflicited ya know
Ex: onion, snl, kimmel, last week tn, old school political cartoons
rise of non-profit news
Institute In Nonprofit news (INN) 2009 –> strengtheninng 459 independent news organizations that do watchdog investigating
= Salt Lake Tribune + VT digger + New Bedford Light
Report for all of America
Podcast
120 million podcast listeners a month in the US (now is past 160 million –> highest revenue)
