Journalism genres

Firstly, within both texts, emphatic stress on lexis are used. In text, A’s first part, Chris Smith and Dave Howard use stress on subject-specific lexis, for example: “double-dip recession”, “count”, and “business”. These are all related somehow to money, emphasising the topic on this section of Newsbeat – money issues, these words would be the ones that the audience would pay more attention to, thus knowing the topic, they could be used to attract a certain audience to keep listening – if they…

With immediate access to a wide range of news and information sources throughout the Internet today, there are undoubtedly a variety of perspectives on important issues. Although Baran suggests that the Internet does not enable citizens to create their own biases, I believe that the variation among multifarious news and information sources allows citizens to seek multiple viewpoints on important issues in order to make informed choices. Social media, television and the Internet are just a few of…

CNN and Fox News Watching the news, in general, can be a very tedious. However, news plays a significant role in societies; in which news provide information about recent events that occur in the world. The presentation and the facts reported in the news can raise attention in society. At times, we often raise questions or feel very suspicious of the accuracy of the report presented in the story. News Reporters do not often purposely broadcast stories that are not precise; however, some stories…

The news media plays an important role in society. It sets the stage for political news, manages their agenda, sources and controls the information. It possesses the ability to shape public knowledge and attitudes. Television remains the dominant way that Americans get news at home. Large audiences tune into local and network broadcast news but national cable news commands the most attention from its viewers. News Channels must constantly decide which facts to include, whom to use as…

The media will often pick and choose from a subject or story, revealing only the bits of information that support their own agenda. Word choice is also very calculated, effectively slanting the writing towards the positive or negative. This charged language manipulates people by injecting bias into information that is advertised as neutral and accurate. The essay “Selection, Slanting, and Charged Language” by Newman P. Birk and Genevieve B. Birk, both authors of Understanding and Using English,…

The administrator of a correctional facility must build a relationship with the media especially with local media outlets. The best policy is be honest and forthcoming with media representatives releasing as much information as possible unless the information is part of an on-going investigation. If an administrator is ever caught in a lie, his credibility was be ruined. The first thing an administrator should do is to define what constitutes the media. With the growth of the Internet there…

When ideas need to be sold and there are an overabundance of suppliers, sensationalism is used by journalists, politicians, and news media to emphasize the extremes of language, and excite people toward a specific side without explanation as to why. History shows that numerous companies ignorantly make outrageous claims about their products in commercials, many presidential candidates proclaim amazing things they can do for America, while insisting other candidates would only make the country…

The author should be credential in order for the media to be credible. The information is not biased and the information is accurate. The audience and readers of the media do not encounter any mistakes and find the source reliable. Many news editors believe that, the author of the media should be credential in order for the media to be credible. The author of the article must have a degree, or past experience, or are well known, in order for the story to be credible. If the author’s name is…

scale. With sources ranging from the earliest form of publicized word to the current reality of active pictures and dramatic screenplay, society has been infused with an environment of news broadcast. Unfortunately, since the creation of television journalism, the overall goal has shifted from knowledgeable reports to pure entertainment. A platform once used to inform the audience of significant and impacting events has transformed into a network’s obsession with maintaining the audience’s…

In today’s society, the idea of media bias seems to be something heedless. No matter what resource we look at, there’s bound to be bias. Whether it’s from the news like CNN, the internet, or if you’re pretty old school, the newspaper. Even the magazines we read in the bathroom contain bias. You can immediately tell if something is bias or not by just the source itself. For example, the idea of arming teachers today seems to be an idea that’s preposterous to some people but to others it’s an idea…