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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…

As we look at popular animated 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…

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…

In Niche News: The Politics of News Choice by Natalie Stroud investigates how people choices where they want to go for the news and the political implications that their choice ultimately entails. In spite of the conventional and true way of thinking about media 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…

“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…

Watching the 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…

The company had signed up 625 cable system affiliates, reaching more than one million of a total of 20 million households that had cable at that time. Its first televised event was a slow-pitch world series softball game between the Milwaukee Schlitzes and the…

What is the current level of turbulence in this case for Dr. Smith? Mrs. Wilson? Mrs. Martin? Provide evidence to support your response. Currently, I would assess Dr. Smith’s level of turbulence to be moderate, however, due to the vulnerability of this situation his actions could negatively influence this level. Shaprio and Gross (2013), indicated that moderate turbulence is not normally a part of how an organization operates, and is prompted by important issues that need to be solve. In this…

Originally titled, It’s Messy, The Mindy Project is an original program created by and starring Mindy Kaling, commissioned by NBC due to her success as a writer, actor, and executive producer on their hit show The Office, which was reaching the end of its run. The network ultimately passed on the pilot due to the female-lead heavy programming schedule of that particular season, which included, Whitney, The New Normal, Save Me, and Parks & Recreation (Hibberd). Once released the program was…

A. AG: It’s safe to assume that everyone in this classroom has looked at some form of news at some point in your life, according to an article written by the MintPress News, 60% of information reported by Fox News in 2015 was false. 1. Aaron Blake, a writer for the Washington Post, stated that people only watch reported news that agrees with their political beliefs. 2. Meaning that the majority of news audiences are subjectively one-sided and don’t get both sides of the story, only the…