News media

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 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…

In Learning To Love The (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media, James Fallows expertly gives a general view of what the “New Media” is and how it affects the world today. Fallows discusses media’s change over time, the dying art of journalism, and how citizens of today must “[face] the inevitability of the shift to infotainment.” According to Fallows, the new media is difficult to understand, because of how contradictory it is. Although citizens complain about the lack of “real” information,…

Levchuck Media influences the general population’s insight to political issues through the press, broadcasts, and online posts. Whether fact based, like The Washington Post and The New York Times Online, or opinionated, like hotair.com, Google News, The Chicago Defender, carlyforpresident.com, and Twitter, media affects one’s approach to forming their own political views. During election seasons, media hold the power to determine a candidate’s success. In the 2016 Presidential Election, media…

Media Language In an increasingly globalized society, the power of mass media is evident in almost every aspect of daily life. Mass media, whether it be social media, broadcast news, journalistic writing, or even academic writing, has a wide and varied effect on the way people interact. Media writing, specifically journalistic writing, has unique characteristics that are not found in any other form of language. The benefits of studying these characteristics with a critical lens are numerous:…

raise funds for the organization and garner media attention. The organization depends on these events to stay active in the community and continue to provide information on how to live a healthy and comfortable life with celiac disease. These events also allow us to interact with our current members and discuss various resources for managing the disease. With proper media relations,…

21st century news media. Bias has become a staple in the media and it is reasonable to believe it is to remain this way until there is sufficient reason for change starting with the way journalists are taught. The minds molded in the classrooms of universities across the United States can bring to a close many of the ethical problems in the news. Reporting and writing can be changed by the teaching of solutions journalism. Another important topic for mass media professors is teaching media…

On January 23, 2014, a webpage news article discussing Justin Bieber’s arrest was the top article on USA Today. Several stories down, a woman in India was gang raped as a court order against the woman. I often find myself questioning why exactly celebrity and entertainment news is seen as more valuable than world news. In The Gambler by Paolo Bacigalupi, the author reflects on the idea that news is tailored to what will get the most ‘clicks’. While I personally believe that women’s rights in…

concerning the potential effects the mass media has upon the public when reporting news, which has contributed to their fear of crime. In their desire to sell more newspapers journalists often present the news in an distorted view as it attracts the public attention. One way this is achieved is by the media playing a vital role in agenda setting in relation to crime and deviance. In 2011, Marsh and Melville defined moral panics as an “exaggerated reaction from the media, the police and the…

In the article, “When all news is ‘fake’, whom do we trust?” the author Ruth Marcus writes from an interesting point of view about the media. Her article provides no biasness and only gives facts about the media and the society at large. She leaves the begging question as to whether the media should or should not be trusted by the society to the reader of the article. She provides facts to support her article, the technique of the author’s delivery is established as formal. The purpose of this…