Journalism genres

Jamonica Gandy Mr. Leatherwood English Composition I Monday 6pm 11 April 2016 How Television Distorts Reality Benjamin Radford is the managing editor of the science magazine Skeptical Inquirer. Radford received a BA in psychology from the University of Mexico. He published hundreds of articles on urban legends, media, paranormal events and critical thinking. In his article, How Television Distorts Reality, he states that television distorts reality by focusing attention on scandalous events.…

It has been taught in school that the United States’ government is comprised of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. While teachers have endlessly emphasized the power of America’s presidents, senators, and judges, they have failed to inform their students of one of the most powerful forces today—the media. It is often forgotten that the media does not just provide its viewers with information, but shapes their way of thinking. It has become one of the strongest players in the…

Fox News is one of the most controversial American television stations mainly because of one word, bias. They have been accused on several occasions of favoring the political right and misrepresenting facts/arguments. However, it seems to have gotten to the point where people just assume Fox News is overly biased based on what others say. There are a lot of people who have never even seen a decent amount of Fox News just because they assume that it’s garbage. I was one of those people until…

consistency in my life was through sports. Since my sister and brother went there, I found an immediate love for STVM sports, as well as a figure I looked up to in LeBron. In fact, I would give him almost all the credit for why I wanted to get into sports journalism from the time I was in third-grade; I wanted to write about LeBron, and what he was doing, and I did. I wrote a family newspaper, the highly-acclaimed and prestigious Dulaney Times and juggled the positions of editor, staff writer,…

The so called “press”, as it once was known as, no longer exists today in the same capacity. “The press” refers to the information gained from newspapers, for it was printed on the printing press. However, since today we gather information from so many different sources that it does not make sense to call it simply “the press” anymore. News and journalists are all a part of the collective body known as “the media”. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the media is embodied by “the means of…

Sherry Ricchiardi notes a couple of cases were photo altering was present and affected photo journalism. Her first example was of Allan Detrich and his tweaking of the Bluffton University baseball team's photo. In the team’s photo, there was a pair of unwanted legs, so Detrich removed the legs to clean up the image. However, someone pointed out the…

The article, Persistent Media Bias by David P. Baron, found in the Journal of Public Economics, discusses the impact media bias has had on journalism and the stories that make it to news broadcasting organizations, as well as reviewing statistical data presented by the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) in regard to media bias. The thesis of the article is that bias has two effects on news stories; due to media bias, individuals are left more skeptical of information presented by news…

Media of all types has always been a dynamic force that shapes how people think, what they believe and how they see the world. We are confronted with many different forms of media throughout a normal day. Visual media, as in pictures and graphics, is extremely productive in appealing to our senses. A popular kind of visual media is the political cartoon. These cartoons are usually illustrations that poke at issues and public figures in society. The people and topics that are being mocked depends…

Sometimes too much repetition, especially same sentences, can be monotonous but not in this case. The author paraphrases sentences in other way and it does not look monotonous. He uses the repetition "enumeration" to show that the amount of destruction was immeasurable. He wants to emphasize that San Francisco was completely destroyed by earthquake. He uses an immense amount of details, so we can imagine the whole picture. London wrote the story from the first person. London’s eyewitness…

For many years, presidential elections have been advertised through television, but is this really contributing to the candidates? Whether it’s through a debate or a commercial, the presidential candidates are getting their name out to the world through television and it is creating a positive effect for those running or planning to run for presidency. Television creates a connection with both the viewer and candidate because it enables direct contact between them. As the United States began…