Rupert Murdoch

Murdoch is a prime example of how the new capitalist media can warp journalist’s morals so as to keep making a profit; he leaned on his staff to write stories that were in keeping with the preferences of the political leaders that he was currently backing…

Sky News Australia launched its 24hours news service, as the first Australian produced news channel in February 1996 (skynews.com). Owned by NewsCorp and ultimately Rupert Murdoch, the 24hr multi-channel, multi-platform news service delivers its content over a variety of mediums along with its television coverage. Sky News Australia currently runs ‘SkyNews.com.au, mobile, podcasts, and Facebook and Twitter and is also the news provider for Qantas in-flight and at train station platforms…

Watching the film Outfoxed one would think that, yes Fox News is extremely bias. Their tactics of promoting their slogan of fair and balance news is far from being true. I completely agree with the claim that Fox News with their political bias is a danger to American society. Although I believe that claim could have been better supported by adding the news coverages from all the other networks, and showing statistics on the decisions of the public based on the given news by other networks in…

As mention above, reporter’s essential role is to provide masses with information, therefore people’s voice should be decisive whether journalists are, as Woodward and Bernstein, crusaders or betrayers of truth, as Jayson Blair or Rupert Murdoch. In fact, public opinion about media representative is unfavourable. In 2009 38% of people taking part in the survey declared that journalists contribute a lot to the society’s well-being, but in 2013 numbers went down and this time only 28% agreed…

As Stanley Eitzen clearly portrayed in his paper; sports is one of the few, if not only, ways for an upwards social mobility. “This is because of shrinking of the middle class and a greater inequality gap” as quoted by Eitzen, simply sums up why sports is one of few methods of catapulting social mobility. This holds true because in our society the gap to pass into a higher social class is extremely hard surpass, however organized sports helps athletes break this gap. If organized sports were to…

different officials, state and show explicit evidence and facts about the misconduct of the Fox News channel. The documentary begins by introducing Rupert Murdoch, a wealthy businessman that bought the Fox station in 1985. Fox began as an affluent news provider that Murdoch negatively turned into a station that tributes the importance of Ronald Reagan, who Murdoch favored a great amount at the time. The idea of promoting others also began around this time. Reporters, producers, and writers of…

Famous sayings regarding Journalism: “When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.” American Newspaper Journalist and editor Charles Anderson Dana who died in 1897 aged 78. Dana said one of the most influential quotes in the news today, being “When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.” This quote is of interest because it is peculiar, it is normal for a man to be bitten by a dog, however a man bites a dog you’re…

Introduction The creative industries have gained significance in terms of the economic well-being. It has been increasingly progressing as an important component for the economies that are based on modern post-industrial knowledge. The entrepreneurs that are involved in this sector are different from the ones that are found in other businesses, because creative entrepreneurs need to invest in the talent that they posses and the people involved (Musk, 2010). Creative Industries The human…

The media are another method used to influence the law making process. Media includes television, social networks, radio, newspapers and journals. Their role is to influence and/or represent public opinion, also, make the government aware of what is happening in the society, promoting issues and causes. Pressure groups also use the media to get their view across, as well as ordinary people. A great influence is carried out by the media towards the government. There are many example of the media…

clips of actual fires during the arson breakout caused by the economic fall of the South Bronx during the 1970s. Socially, the Bronx was changing drastically in the 1970s, which Mahler contributes to the recent changes in the Newspaper industry. Rupert Murdoch, after purchasing the New York Post began a new wave of sensationalism in…