A timeless challenge for media governance is Media Ownership. Whoever owns the media will be able to govern the media? Or should the media still be unbiased and not submit to the whims of ownership? Shouldn’t the media present and take care of the needs of its consumers? The philosophy that the market will take care of the needs of consumers is just that, a philosophy. Owners of media outlets can and do dictate the content as to not offend advertisers or to promote the company itself. A perfect example of this currently happening today is at Fox News. The 2004 documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch 's War on Journalism by filmmaker Robert Greenwald criticizes the Fox News Channel, and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, claiming that the channel is used
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The inner workings of Fox were divulged through a series of interviews with former Fox employees and numerous journalists who discuss the pro-conservative, anti-Democratic views of the channel 's management and how they 're expressed in their programming. According to one former employee, every morning there were a list of topics delivered that they could or could not talk about that day. “Fox has eliminated journalism, they always blur the lines of news and commentary,” (Outfoxed 2004). Fox news uses an attack policy when they want to bring someone down and strategically use American culture customs to place speakers based on their appearance. What I liked most about the film is how they put talk show host Bill O 'Reilly under the microscope to show how he lies, is contradictory, and twists stories and his commonly abrasive interviewing style. One key point that stood out to me was what has happened to the Fairness Doctrine? Media governance needs to reinstate this doctrine so that all sides of politics get equal press coverage and air …show more content…
In particular the Construction of Platform Imperialism in the Globalization Era dissertation by Dal Yong Jin where he addresses whether we are experiencing a new notion of imperialism by diagraming out the primary characteristics that define platform imperialism. The United States has imperialized the global media market and culture. Based on the Outfoxed documentary, I think that Fox and the other handful of major news media corporations are a new form of imperialist rule. I would even speculate that Rupert Murdoch’s long term goal is to see “the global cultural market world [become] primarily a one-way cultural flow where America dominated international trade in film and television,” (Jin 2013). In Murdoch’s case, Fox would be the one dominant company that controlled the flow and content of
The inner workings of Fox were divulged through a series of interviews with former Fox employees and numerous journalists who discuss the pro-conservative, anti-Democratic views of the channel 's management and how they 're expressed in their programming. According to one former employee, every morning there were a list of topics delivered that they could or could not talk about that day. “Fox has eliminated journalism, they always blur the lines of news and commentary,” (Outfoxed 2004). Fox news uses an attack policy when they want to bring someone down and strategically use American culture customs to place speakers based on their appearance. What I liked most about the film is how they put talk show host Bill O 'Reilly under the microscope to show how he lies, is contradictory, and twists stories and his commonly abrasive interviewing style. One key point that stood out to me was what has happened to the Fairness Doctrine? Media governance needs to reinstate this doctrine so that all sides of politics get equal press coverage and air …show more content…
In particular the Construction of Platform Imperialism in the Globalization Era dissertation by Dal Yong Jin where he addresses whether we are experiencing a new notion of imperialism by diagraming out the primary characteristics that define platform imperialism. The United States has imperialized the global media market and culture. Based on the Outfoxed documentary, I think that Fox and the other handful of major news media corporations are a new form of imperialist rule. I would even speculate that Rupert Murdoch’s long term goal is to see “the global cultural market world [become] primarily a one-way cultural flow where America dominated international trade in film and television,” (Jin 2013). In Murdoch’s case, Fox would be the one dominant company that controlled the flow and content of