Investigative journalism

In the film ‘Machuca,’ the director took the audience on a journey , exploring the lives of two boys, Peter Gonzalo and Pedro Machuca during the time Chile was fighting to rule their own country. The documentary, ‘The Battle of Chile Part 2,’ also gave the audience the direct footage from a journalist point of view of the campaign and fight for Chile. Both film gave viewers the insight of the struggles the lower class families and people struggling to make a living went through during the…

The media serves an interesting purpose, which is to educate the reader, but only to the degree that the author or news outlet sees fit. For instance, news outlets could bias their content by omitting information or by emphasizing some points more than others to convey the message they want. By cherry picking information, the media can essentially control how the general public will perceive the information and react. For instance, there was an article published in the Morning Call titled…

Journalism Level Three Essay By Fynn Rackett, Media Production, Ms Crothers In this essay, I will discuss the changes and advancements in journalism throughout the years, the modern role of a journalist in modern Australian society and the importance of the ethics that journalists abide by. The role of a journalist has changed and progressed massively over the years, and in the following text I will…

Now, as many world leaders have stated, we are entering a post-truth society. According to the Oxford Dictionaries, which continues to be one of the most reliable sources for definitions in the world, defines post-truth as, “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”, and its effects are detrimental to the safety and security of people and nations around the world. Fake news, as well as hacking, is a big part…

A great way to better understand audiences is to analyze the ways in which they are represented in the news. Throughout the semester, some “audience in the news” examples that were presented to COMM 3P18 can definitely be used to further understand both the theories of uses and gratifications and public opinion and audience citizenship. These theories can also be examined through analyzing a recent article from the guardian, titled “CBC’s racist comment sections spark debate on Canada’s…

Media Literacy is defined as the ability to analyze and understand what we see in the news everyday. Media literacy is super important in today’s society. It is clear in examples like the case of Michael Brown that media perspectives warps everything we see today. One example that stands out to me was the activity we did in Contemporary Social Themes examining different perspectives in articles about the Murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Most of them seemed to take the side of Michael Brown.…

Long before President Trump coined the term “Fake news,” it used to be known as propaganda that intentionally misleads its readers to gain attention. In essence, Fake news is unsupported data that is based on the media's biased outlook on certain issues. i.e. a health-based organization will search for the tiniest research that indicates that a certain food is unhealthy, when the majority of research actually points that this is untrue. But since there is a single published research paper on the…

the internet. Instead of the information being monitored by ¨watchdog groups¨ or groups that monitor the information such as AIM, or Accuracy in the Media, there are not laws or regulations regarding who can publish on the internet (Farhi). In addition, there are a multitude of news organizations that are now leaning toward conservative or liberal views. This means that many citizens are getting their information from a biased source and may not even know it. Not only is it the citizen's job to…

look, there are kids getting killed in Afghanistan and Iraq everyday getting stories. I think that there is a great amount of beautiful journalism going on. I think that there is a lot of crap out there and it's a different world now.” Clooney describes what it takes to be a true journalist, close to Murrow. He describes how a person who wants to pursue Journalism, must overcome obstacles. For instance, many journalists didn’t want to report nor attack McCarthy, due to their safety purposes. …

Before the internet, there was not the variety of news sources that there are now. There were radio stations, conventional newspapers, and the three main television networks. The lack of widespread coverage created a competitive atmosphere to report the highest quality news, or run the risk of being ridiculed by the other news sources for reporting false information. Since the other news sources were quick to point out the lack of integrity of the other news sources for reporting in a biased…