Gonzo journalism

Reporting is about always getting one hundred percent of the facts, but why do so many fall short? This could be due to a myriad of different possibilities, from being lazy, to just not caring and lying about all the info collected. Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, is the best investigative journalist there is. He makes sure to pursue every lead that presents itself. Stone knows how to get the facts from few and far between, to make sure not only, he…

The World Wide Media Bias Crisis All pieces of information, unless hard fact, are biased. This may not always be intentional, as each individual has had different experiences than those around them. Even though it is unrealistic for the media to be completely objective in every issue they cover, media bias is real and prevalent, and is dividing the people of the world. Social media, although it spreads information quickly, has greatly decreased the accuracy of information. The entire developed…

Often in history we make ourselves seen in a certain light with how we prioritize the media. But the documentary “Control Room” demonstrates a realistic view of the acts committed during the Iraq war by having it recorded and later televised with two conflicting viewpoints. The documentary utilizes the media in filming a historical account of both views on the Iraq war as a way to educate the people with context that they can apply to the moments of terror during the war. Due to most conflicts…

The fourth Arm of Government Seonyoung Park California States University, Northridge POL 355 The Fourth Arm of Government Like many countries in the world, The United States has three arms of government. There are the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. The purpose of these arms is to ensure the smooth running of affairs in the country by making, changing and implementing policies when the necessity arises. However, the mass media has been described by many as the…

Various forms of media have seeped into our society and our minds for generations. Our very beings are shaped by the constant influx of information we hear from our surroundings: the news, comedy shows, radio talk shows, etc… As Americans we are enveloped in 24-7 TV availability, and we are never far from another's public statement of their opinion. The 1st Amendment allows for the freedom of speech, which many take for granted. Due to the amendment people are able to speak their opinions…

interesting at all, due to its probability of searching evidence-anecdotal or they have to provide evidence of media bias as one stripe or another. The interesting and instructive part of studying media biases is inherent or structural biases present in journalism. However, a professional working in media is through television. The word bias is used as a present day challenge that is applied for partisan critics. "Frame" would be referred as the most appropriate one against this word that…

GurinderPal Singh John Kincheloe English 101B 6 August 2015 Convergence Culture Convergence culture is the term coined by Henry Jenkins meaning the colliding of old and new media (Jenkins 425). It is also a world where consumer participation can simultaneously create productive global conversation, as well as devolve our understanding of the human condition and art. Convergence has been created to better our lives and make things simpler. In todays society convergence plays a huge roll in our…

“The media’s the most powerful entity on Earth, they have the power to make the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses,”(Malcolm X). In history, media bias has existed since the nineteenth century , most newspapers were actually linked with their particular political party and the economic interests of their publisher. It is a relatively recent development that reporters should be absolutely, unwaveringly objective in stories…

Criticism of Wikipedia—of its content, procedures, and operations, and of the Wikipedia community—covers many subjects, topics, and themes about the nature of Wikipedia as an open source encyclopedia of subject entries that almost anyone can edit. Wikipedia has been criticized for the uneven handling, acceptance, and retention of articles about controversial subjects. The principal concerns of its critics are the factual reliability of the content; the readability of the prose; and a clear…

THESIS Pictures that are impactful, timely and contribute significant news value cannot be discounted due to their violent nature. Shocking and violent photographs have the power to garner public interest and provoke social change. Patt Blue from the International Center of Photography writes, “reality is not a framed and frozen image - it is chaos, loud, dirty, and grossly disorganized” and so we should expect our news photography to properly showcase that. While many aspiring journalists drift…