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during WWII, Katharine’s father persuaded him to join his wife as an associate publisher for The Washington Post. In 1948, Eugene Meyer sold the company to Philip Graham for just $1. Philip helped improve the popularity and widespread reading of the newspaper, helping it beat out the prior competition, including The Washington Times Herald and Newsweek magazine. The Graham’s marriage could have been said to be rocky and was full of rough patches. A couple years after the marriage, Katharine…

The media plays a huge part in today’s society because it is everywhere! People have it on their phones, televisions, and even the radio! Media is also filled with tons of ads or commercials. These commercials like to persuade everyday people to buy their product. These companies must use many different techniques to have a sufficient impact on their target audience. A commercial I see a lot of the time is from Ford Motor Company showing off their new 2015 F-150 Truck. This new Ford commercial…

Photoshop is behind many photojournalists’ downfalls. There is a thing line between correcting the color or brightness in the photo and cropping in or out an unwanted object in the photo. Being a photojournalist you have to be extra cautious in order to not cross that line. However, last year in 2016, photographer Steve McCurry was accused of doing this very thing. McCurry was first called out by Paolo Viglione, a fellow photographer, when an image from Cuba was found where the Photoshop editing…

The Public Broadcasting Service PBS, has existed since 1970, is not considered part of the big networks like CBS, CNN and FOX News. PBS operates with a much different distribution model compared to the major networks. Most uniquely, its station determine their own network rather than a traditional mode; of a network owning some of its stations and affiliating with additional stations owned by other broadcasters. PBS offers programming that expands the minds of children, and documentaries that…

admitted that some passages in his articles were identical to those previously published elsewhere. He said one instance was the fault of an editor at the student newspaper, who he said inserted a passage from The New Yorker in an article without his knowledge. In a staff editorial posted on the Web site of The Flat Hat, the student newspaper, the editors called Mr. Domenech's actions, if true, deeply offensive. Mr. Domenech also said that he may have mixed up his notes with articles from…

The intellectual elements during The Twenties mainly revolved around the invention of the radio. The radio was able to create a “national mass culture” (Keene, 634). It was able to spread news and stories, as well as, promote the sale of certain products. People who were able to obtain these radios, which was about 60 percent of the American population, gathered around them to hear the latest in sports and elections (Keene, 634). The radio provided a quick and easy way to spread information.…

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,…

Journalist Edward R. Murrow and director George Clooney both agree the view on integrity can be altered by a mass hysteria. According to Murrow’s speech on the Future of News Media, he says, “We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information, and our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who…

The majority of the commercials we see these days are about companies advertising their products with the intention of showing the audience how they are better than the competition and ultimately convincing them of buying their product. On the other hand, some organizations use this method of communication to send a powerful message to the audience about issues concerning society. In this case, the United States Food and Drug Administration produced a commercial to send a message about how…

to negatively influence and mislead people in the future. The traditional media that baby boomers have used is the newspaper. A newspaper passes through many editors and every person is assigned a single section, so you know your section well. Information is passed through journalists to writers before finally heading to the final editor and being sent out to the masses. Newspaper outlets understood that due to limited alternative media, they had an incredible responsibility to the public to…