The media Flashcards
Give 3 left wing newspapers
The Guardian
The Mirror
The independent
Give 3 right wing newspaper
The Times
The Telegraph
The Daily Mail
What are the 5 steps towards earning the public’s trust for a newspaper
1.Provide evidence for your assertions
2.Beware of bad faith actors
3.Explain the decisions around the information you’re using
4.Tell a story people want to hear the end of
5.“be trustworthy”
Give the definition of an organisational or bureaucratic routine
The processes in which news is collected may eventually lead to biases in what is being presented and reported
5 ways organisational routines are shown
Source of news
Financial costs
Time or space available
Deadlines
Immediacy and actuality
What increases news-worthiness
Extraordinariness
Threshold
Unambiguity
Reference to elite people
Personalisation
Negativity
Who own the Daily Telegraph
The Barclay Brothers
What company oversees The Times, The Sun and the Sunday Times
News Corporation - Owned by Rupert Murdoch
Who oversees the Daily Mail
DMGT - Viscount Rothermere
Who owns the Independent
Tony O’Reilly
Who owns the Daily Express
Richard Desmond
What is citizen journalism
the concept of members of the public “playing an active role in the process if collecting, reporting, analysing and disseminating news and information
What is the CPTPP
The comprehensive and progressive agreement for Trans-Pacific partnership
Who are members of the CPTPP
Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, UK
When did UK get accepted to join the CPTPP
31st March 2023
What is a free trade agreement?
A pact between two or more nations to reduce barriers to imports and exports among them
Why is the CPTPP useful
- Harmonising regulations
- Reduces tariffs
- Labour rights
- Environmental protections
- State-owned enterprises
What does MSM stand for?
Mainstream mass media
How many daily newspapers are there in the UK?
104
What are the big 6 media companies
General Electric
Walt Disney
News Corporation
Time Warner
Viacom
CBS
Give the definition of a conglomerate
A large international organisation that owns a lot of companies in different media industries
In terms of the media, what is the effects theory
-The idea that the media can have an effect over its audience
-Thought of as what the media does to its audience
What is the hypodermic needle theory
The theory suggests that the media ‘inject’ its audience with its ideas like a passive patient rather than a critical and active consumer
The focus is on the fact that we don’t choose to believe certain things – the media chooses for us
What does ofcom stand for and what is Ofcom?
Office of Communications
- Government approved authority that regulates UK communications, tv and radio stations
- Promotes competition between the media
- Handles complaints from the public about the media
What does BBC stand for and when was it founded ?
British Broadcasting Corporation
1922
What is the Human Rights Act 1998
it allows the media greater freedom of expression to comment on matters of public interest and importance
