Concentration of media ownership

advancement of Democratic principles in both nations. Freedom of independent media depends on government institutions to actively protect free speech. Both countries require an actively free press in order to present a broad range of views within the realm of political discussion that questions both ends of the political spectrum. Democracy cannot fully be achieved without an informed public, and therefore it is important that the media has the autonomy to make crucial information easily…

allowed lots of spin-offs around the world which includes countries such as the UK, Philippines, Australia, South Africa and so on. Jordan (2014) argued that the worldwide proliferation of reality television is a product of the increasing concentration of ownership in the television industry, the globalization of commercial TV, and the fragmentation of the worldwide audience (p. 522). This means that a show such as survivor was able to live on and is still going strong because it does not have…

“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.” –Noam Chomsky Introduction On August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, Michael Brown, an 18 year old, was shot ten times by Police Officer Darren Wilson, over a piece of stolen candy. However, the store that Michael Brown had bought the candy from, had not reported any theft, so reports claimed that Michael had been shot and killed for Jay walking. Michael Brown’s body was left in the streets, uncovered for four hours…

were used as factories, where prisoners would be forced to work until they couldn’t move. Adolf Hitler specifically hated Jews. Hitler managed to convince the Germans that the Jews were to blame for all the problems in the country. Hitler used the media to brainwash most of the people that it was the Jews fault. On May 10th, The Gestapo (German secret police) is created by…

1Part A North Korea, officially The Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea, is a country isolated by its ideals and views. North Korea’s extreme views have caught the attention of media worldwide, as it is so different to most governments. Australia, having been colonized by Britain, appears quite similar to the British system, having human rights and equality at the center of their ideals. Both Australia and North Korea are labeled as liberal democracies on paper, and have written…

so the 1996 Act was created in order to deregulate the media industry. However, the creation of the act represented a major change in American telecommunication law, because it was the first time that the Internet was included in broadcasting and spectrum allotment. What the 1996 Act was met with harsh criticism because it allowed for media cross-ownership and many Americans felt like this act was going to led to the monopolization of the media. The Federal Communications Commission beleived…

where various forms of media play an undeniably crucial role in the dissemination of information to citizens, it was the philosophical prophecies of Marshall McLuhan that prove to still be pertinent in today’s use of media. The present usage of such terms as “media”, “global village” as well as “Age of Information” were all coined by Marshall McLuhan in his 1965 work Understanding Media (Lapham, x). In the information age we currently live in, McLuhan’s contributions to media and communication…

mobile phone have no difference at all as both exist for the same reason, connect one people with another. Many researchers have made a research about smartphones ownership. Surprisingly, in developing and emerging countries have smartphone ownership rate at a median of 21% in 2013 and climbing up to 37% in 2015 (Rainie,2017). Due to the ownership of smartphone increase rapidly, Dr.…

not today that we see and know the strength that the media has, and this becomes clearer when through all this force it starts to instill in people an idea or even an already formed point of view on a subject. And note that when we refer to the media, we are actually referring to all of its forms of placement, whether it is spoken, written, televised or even made by virtual means and other means that are possible. It is not denied that the media has an odd relevance for the maintenance of a…

ESPN started with just two men when one, Bill Rasmussen lost his job as communications director for the New England Whalers in 1978. Bill’s dream, along with his son Scott was to change the way the news industry operated, and they did just that by creating the first 24-hour network, and the first to exclusively air sports news. The very first show to air was on September 7th, 1979, live from the ESPN studio. In 1983 they began to distribute programming internationally. After discovering that it…