Media transparency

In a media world run chiefly on market model principles, the task of making sense of why these extensive mergers happened is pretty simple, at least in terms of a business stand point. Owning multiple mediums within the industry is how to reach “economics of scale” (Pavlick and McIntosh, p. 51-52), companies such as Disney for instance use synergy to rake in money from various subsets all based on the same idea. This dynamic enables the industries giants not only to reap financial merit, it also…

Over the years, the media has served an important role in delivering people the news of the world. People everywhere rely on it to provide helpful and accurate information, but what if the media didn’t provide helpful and accurate information and instead provided people with misinformation or “fake news”? In recent years, the media has opted to provide its followers with interesting fake news rather than report the not so exciting real news. How big of a deal is fake news, is this fake news…

Media is a powerful source in manipulating people in thinking a certain way. It is inevitable not to hear or see the news, protests, violence, ads, and especially gun law topic. Media is popular in our society and when there is a burden of a situation media brings up discussions and questioning if the laws are well written or need modifications. This is where the politics are targets and making them question the constitutional amendment of gun laws. To influence the public, they discuss the…

Morgan, Shanahan and Signorielli (2017) explains that “cultivation analysis describes a body of research that looks at relationships between exposure to mass media (most often television) and beliefs about the world (attitudes, and sometimes behaviors). It is one of the most frequently encountered and often discussed theories within the field of media effects”. (Gerbner & Gross, 1976) “Cultivation is a sociocultural theory regarding the role of television in shaping viewers’ perceptions,…

news has caused politicians to capitalize on the extra media coverage negativity receives, resulting in extra publicity, and extra votes. A prime example of media manipulation is President Donald Trump: “Trump continues to be credible, to receive massive media coverage and win more votes” (Salama, 2016, par. 16). Trump’s expertise in celebrity has helped him manipulate the media in a fashion that benefits his political campaign: “His media campaign is highlighted by three constraints provided…

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…

social media, to conduct information searches, prior to their purchase decision making (Lempert, 2006; Vollmer & Precourt, 2008) as its deemed a much more trustworthy source of information (Foux, 2006). This is supported by recent statistics suggesting social network media content reaches out to 80% of the UK population (Mintel, 2016) and of that 49% of users are visiting a brand’s page, whilst 38% are ‘liking’ or ‘recommending’ content on the page. Go WILD! could use this particular media…

for your thoughtful take on whether or not the media should have a responsibility to cover climate change related issues and if they adequately raise awareness and concern among the population. Your points of unquantifiable predictions, using an alternative organization for reporting purposes, and educating the people in power not the masses are very valid arguments for reporting climate change differently. However as a team we still feel that mass media has the most power to convince the public…

The film Rich Media Poor Democracy asserts that journalism in the United States does not serve the interest of the public, instead they serve the interest of media corporate bosses. Moreover, the film points out the media corporate bosses are to blame for the absence of choice and diversity in the media which stems from a shortage of competition created through mergers. Rich Media Poor Democracy proposes that citizen involvement can and should rescue the media, otherwise corporate bosses will…

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…