American Broadcasting Company

This new service, known as CAB (Co-operative Analysis of Broadcasting began in 1930 calling their listeners four different times of the day with the expectation of their respondents to recall their last three to six hours of radio listening. Although this achieved an audience estimate for all national network programmes…

The history of Journalism is something so unique to study. Media has improved in so many ways over time. Looking back to the ways people received their news, I come to realization that there are many differences. The speed of time as well as strategies taken to express information are just a few examples. The earliest methods of transmitting news was through words written, which possibly limited its content to what people took out of the message. The accuracy of what was processed depended on…

1) “A decision to develop a series for prime time simultaneously a choice about a commercial commodity, an aesthetic endeavor, and a social institution. As a result, those making programming decisions will be variously evaluated according to perceptions of their business judgment, their aesthetic tastes, and the values they impart” (Bielby and Bielby 1994:1290). “in a mass-culture industry with a high level of market concentration such as network television, brokers are more directly…

television series that have been running for at least a decade and continue to run, the two that can get brought up are “American Dad!” and “Family Guy.” Both shows ultimately demonstrate core family values in the most comedic way but they are equally different and in point of the main characters both have several differences. As a contrast between the main character of “American Dad“, Stan Smith and of “Family Guy”, Peter Griffin, one is more disciplined and determined than the other. “Family…

Fox. The show quickly gained a strong fan base. Not far into the first season Empire was ranked one of Fox’s number hit television shows. Empire is about the hip hop and entertainment company, Empire Entertainment, and the drama among the members of the founders’ family. It is about their fight for control of the company. It stars Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon, who was a former drug dealer turned hip hop mogul and CEO of Empire. After Lucious learns that he has ALS his life started to cave in…

utilization isolating along generational or political lines, to a great extent figures out where individuals go to find out about events. One generation has a tendency to depend on print, another on TV and still another the web, the dominant part of Americans crosswise over eras now join a blend of sources and advances to get their news every week. When individuals go for news it depends essentially on the theme of the story; whether it is games or science, legislative issues or climate,…

The purpose of this essay is to observe the differences between news reports on Malala Yousafzai from the British Broadcasting Corporation and the NZ Herald. In recognising the differences between these two articles it raises the question of what truth in journalism is. This essay will analyse the quotes that are used and the titles of the articles to show how certain factors alter the perception of a person. The news reports that have been chosen are found online and have been published around…

“Outfoxed” is a documentary that strictly describes a specific media union as a false representation of what the world consists of. Instead, this group also known as “Fox News” is exclaimed to set a “smoke and mirrors” illusion. During the film, different officials, state and show explicit evidence and facts about the misconduct of the Fox News channel. The documentary begins by introducing Rupert Murdoch, a wealthy businessman that bought the Fox station in 1985. Fox began as an affluent news…

film Outfoxed one would think that, yes Fox News is extremely bias. Their tactics of promoting their slogan of fair and balance news is far from being true. I completely agree with the claim that Fox News with their political bias is a danger to American society. Although I believe that claim could have been better supported by adding the news coverages from all the other networks, and showing statistics on the decisions of the public based on the given news by other networks in comparison to…

this can be seen in 1898 when the United States of America went to war with Spain; the media accused Spain of blowing up the battleship Maine, even though it actually malfunctioned and exploded, but due to the lack of knowledge it still resulted in Americans wanting to go to war, according to Eric Foner, a history professor at the University of Columbia. b. If media corruption is allowed to continue it could impact our lives on an even more drastic level, including the collapse of modern…