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)
Gear used by Abel
Drones
Gimbels (smooth shot)
Cameras in 4k and 8k with good depth of field
Transmedia
storytelling across multiple texts (range of multiple media formats)
Ex: west side
approaches features in FTV
Aesthetics
genre
culture and history
industry
franchises
a collection of multiple related media texts, stemming from one original work (same or different medium)
extend the story line + same cinematic universe
media conglomerate owns rights to IP
Benefits
- Intellectual Property (IP) rights
- more likely to finance prequels, sequels
- marketing known stories
- mainstream mass audiences (familiar)
downsides
- audience fatigue/avoidance
- start to look alike
- fewer risky or original stories
- less money for mid range films
- fewer screen available for small films
paratexts
something beyond the movie itself used as marketing material
ex: trailers
