The media

Question 1

Give 3 left wing newspapers

Answer 1

The Guardian
The Mirror
The independent

Question 2

Give 3 right wing newspaper

Answer 2

The Times
The Telegraph
The Daily Mail

Question 3

What are the 5 steps towards earning the public’s trust for a newspaper

Answer 3

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”

Question 4

Give the definition of an organisational or bureaucratic routine

Answer 4

The processes in which news is collected may eventually lead to biases in what is being presented and reported

Question 5

5 ways organisational routines are shown

Answer 5

Source of news
Financial costs
Time or space available
Deadlines
Immediacy and actuality

Question 6

What increases news-worthiness

Answer 6

Extraordinariness
Threshold
Unambiguity
Reference to elite people
Personalisation
Negativity

Question 7

Who own the Daily Telegraph

Answer 7

The Barclay Brothers

Question 8

What company oversees The Times, The Sun and the Sunday Times

Answer 8

News Corporation - Owned by Rupert Murdoch

Question 9

Who oversees the Daily Mail

Answer 9

DMGT - Viscount Rothermere

Question 10

Who owns the Independent

Answer 10

Tony O’Reilly

Question 11

Who owns the Daily Express

Answer 11

Richard Desmond

Question 12

What is citizen journalism

Answer 12

the concept of members of the public “playing an active role in the process if collecting, reporting, analysing and disseminating news and information

Question 13

What is the CPTPP

Answer 13

The comprehensive and progressive agreement for Trans-Pacific partnership

Question 14

Who are members of the CPTPP

Answer 14

Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, UK

Question 15

When did UK get accepted to join the CPTPP

Answer 15

31st March 2023

Question 16

What is a free trade agreement?

Answer 16

A pact between two or more nations to reduce barriers to imports and exports among them

Question 17

Why is the CPTPP useful

Answer 17

• Harmonising regulations
• Reduces tariffs
• Labour rights
• Environmental protections
• State-owned enterprises

Question 18

What does MSM stand for?

Answer 18

Mainstream mass media

Question 19

How many daily newspapers are there in the UK?

Answer 19

104

Question 20

What are the big 6 media companies

Answer 20

General Electric
Walt Disney
News Corporation
Time Warner
Viacom
CBS

Question 21

Give the definition of a conglomerate

Answer 21

A large international organisation that owns a lot of companies in different media industries

Question 22

In terms of the media, what is the effects theory

Answer 22

-The idea that the media can have an effect over its audience
-Thought of as what the media does to its audience

Question 23

What is the hypodermic needle theory

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What does ofcom stand for and what is Ofcom?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

What does BBC stand for and when was it founded ?

Answer 25

British Broadcasting Corporation

1922

Question 26

What is the Human Rights Act 1998

Answer 26

it allows the media greater freedom of expression to comment on matters of public interest and importance