...Evaluating Media for Credibility Myranda Anderson Critical Thinking CRT/205 December 7, 2012 Amanda Hawkins Evaluating Media for Credibility The two channels I chose to watch were CNN and MSNBC. On CNN I watched “New Day” broadcasted on December 13, 2013 at 7am. On MSNBC I watched “Morning Joe” broadcasted on December 13, 2013 at 8am. The news program I felt was the most credible was CNN. First, CNN allowed more broadcast time for their segments compared to MSNBC. CNN’s broadcasts seemed more detailed than MSNBC’S broadcasts which gave me a better insight into the story line. I compared three different stories between the two news channels. I say the stories listed below were credible even though I did not agree with some of the words used by the news reporters. For instance, the story on CNN about the laser lights, the news reporter used the word “stupid” several times. He should have chosen a better word to use or should have just omitted the word entirely. The story about Ethan Couch the news reporter used words such as “slap on the wrist”, “money influence”, and “cushy, I don’t care family”. The...
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...Evaluating Media for Credibility Jose Fill University of Phoenix Critical Thinking CRT/205 Jill Rossi August 12, 2012 Evaluating Media for Credibility On August 12, 2012 I watched the CNN news broadcast for What’s next for Mars? Searching for Alien Life on Mars. (CNN [CNN], 2012, p. 1) CNN interviewed Author Lawrence Krauss about what the next steps will be for the rover Curiosity on mars. Lawrence Krauss discussed the different pictures taken from mars so far and the next logical step from here is to either discover past life on mars or even possibly life on mars now. Lawrence Krauss thinks we are cousins of mars and we could actually be Martians. On August 11, 2012 Lex18.com aired the article NASA’s mega rover landed on mars. What’s next? ("Lex18.com," 2012, p. 1) This article only covered on paragraph on what’s next for mars. In that paragraph it states “that the Curiosity rover is on a quest to learn whether the Martian environment could have been favorable for microbial life”.("Lex18.com," 2012, para. 1) The rest of the article just goes on about how and when then Curiosity rover landed. I feel that the CNN news video was more credible because it went into more detail on what the real next step mars will be. The other article wasn’t a video and really didn’t state anything special about the issue. I feel this news headliner was misleading and bare. Plus I couldn’t even find who wrote about it. CNN actually had a credible source, Author Lawrence Krauss. I found...
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...Evaluating Media for Credibility Barbara Royal CRT 205 August 2, 2012 Catherine Crowfoot Evaluating Media for Credibility The two television stations I choose to watch are CSPAN and CNN. On CNN the show was called Fareed Zakaria, Fareeds take. Fareed was talking about Africa a lot where they stand, and how they compared to China. To me Fareed was placing his option into everything he talked about. He said that he saw Africa growing fast and they would soon become a middle class country. After he talked about Africa he introduced “The most powerful man in America” no not the president it was Grover Norquist. Grover is trying to pass the GOP pledge to never raise taxes. Grover said “Thousands of people lobby for MORE spending. There are only a handful of groups that fight for LESS.” In my eyes that is not creditable and it seems it is Grover’s opinion. There are no statics based on what he said. This man Grover is trying to pass a no more raising taxes bill which will be great for the Americans. Unfortually he has been trying to pass this for years. When I watched this CNN station on Sunday September 2, 2012 from 1 pm till 2pm Fareed didn’t spend but maybe 10 mins on the Africa issues but he did stick to talking with Grover for the remainder of the show. After CNN I watched CSPAN they were discussing Past Democratic Convention Speeches. When I started watching they just started with Robert F. Kennedy speech, when I started watching at 12:30pm. Robert Kennedy...
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...Evaluating the Media for Credibility CRT 205 July 3, 2012 LaToya Gilbert Evaluating the Media for Credibility I watched the Fox News with Shepard Smith on channel 360 at 6:00pm. The show touched on several different stories that are happening throughout the world. Most of the stories that were mentioned received about at least two to three minutes of air time the first thirty minutes of the news broadcast. The second half of the hour that was referred to as “the bottom half of the hour” by Shepard Smith was said to contain the top stories. The stories that were talked about in this portion of the show had about at least 5 minutes of air time. The majority of the stories that were given air time on the show were showing the negative issues to topics that had happened. I believe that Shepard Smith did a great job providing the top stories to his audience with enough information facts and examples to make the stories and the issues believable. The current drought status, botched jewelry store robbery, tropical storm and drunk driver were briefly mentioned. The Olympics is a huge story at this point in time. They talked about Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte and the competition they have going against each other. By mentioning this they have made it more enticing and people will want to watch to see the outcome. They focus should be on beating the other team but the show is helping sell the story by focusing on their individual battle going on between themselves. Another...
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...Evaluating Media Coverage My first online video story was on CNN and it covered the “Lockerbie Bomber Dies in Tripoli”. The length of this video was around 3:22 and I found this story playing on people’s emotions. What it showed (which was terrible) was a man convicted of bombing a airline flight back in 1988(Pan Am, flight 103), which killed all 270 people on board. The Lockerbie bomber was given 27 years but only served about eight years, because of prostate cancer. They interviewed the passengers family’s and they expressed how they thought about his early release. This was a good way to get an emotional response in the audience/public. However, they did bring up some interesting points like the fact that Libya threatened Britain in a statement that if the bomber died in a Scottish jail, there would be dire consequences. Of course, when asked about this, this was denied. People in Scotland were interviewed and many thought that he was being used as a “scapegoat” so to speak. Even the possibility that he may have even been a Libyan Intelligence Agent was mentioned but that was never proven, even in the trial. My second online news video was with Fox News about the continuing story about baby Lisa and the newest updates. It had the parents and their attorney at the news station being interviewed, as well as flash backs with the same reporter from the beginning. This interview lasted 10:27 which is quite a bit longer then the first video but then again, we are talking about...
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...CRT/205 Evaluating Media for Creditability The news broadcast that I watched was local channels. Channel 7 and Channel 2, they are really the only channels that I watch. The times of the broadcast were both 11:00pm news on Friday July7th 2012. I recorded the one channel while I watched the other. I decided on local news because I knew that these would be more similar then the national broadcasts because they have such a wide range of things to report on, where the local is just in your area so the stories should be similar. The news channel that I felt was more credible was channel 2. The reason why I think that channel two news was more credible is because they were more through with their reports on each story and they always had witness either involved or around to put in their thoughts or insight. I think that they are more rounded when it comes to reporting on a story. I think that this is funny that I feel this way because I favor channel 7 personally, I always watch channel 7 and no other channel so I am a little shocked with my own findings. I can tell that they are all about getting as much information out about something as quickly as possible. Each segment was short but supplied a lot of information and like I said they were always on site, so where ever the story was they were reporting from there. Channel 7 news reports were just pictures and the regular reporters sitting at a desk chatting it up, although I do enjoy listening to their friendly banter...
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...1. What communication type avoids conflict and focuses on facts and details rather than the big picture? They may be perceived by others as unemotional and nonchalant. • Argumentatives • Sympathetics • Systematics • Directs 2. A criticism of social media is that it • is only available to the media savvy. • contributes to the decline in writing and language skills. • leads to separation of the haves and have-nots. • leads to information overload 3. In Korean culture, a business deal is dependent on contractual information as well as how the parties perceive each other’s values and ethics. According to Edmund Hall, this behavior exhibits the theory of • proxemics • low-context cultures • Ethno-centricism • high-context cultures 4. Your supervisor sends you an e-mail requesting an article for the employee newsletter about company loyalty. You write the article featuring customers who are brand loyal. Later, your supervisor criticizes you for not writing about the topic that he requested. After a face-to-face meeting, you realize that he wanted you to write about employee loyalty. This is an example of what type of noise? • Unwanted • External • Semantic • Internal Want more details? Download now COM 537 Final Exam 5. The head of the holiday party committee at your office is trying to set a location for the event. The committee chairperson announces three choices for members to vote on. When Erin hears that the Boar’s Tavern is one of the choices, her...
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...American culture relies heavily on media, and that is not as valuable to learning as literature. I completely agree. It stated that an American child from age five to age eighteen has viewed over 20,000 hours of television and electronic media. That is an abundant amount of time spent doing that opposed to spending time doing homework and studying. There needs to be more of a balance in the use of electronic curriculum and traditional curriculum. I know that when I was a child, my family didn’t even have cable, so it was a real treat when I would get to watch a movie, or any television on the non-cable channels. My family pushed the importance of reading books, and figuring out the message in everything I read. Television and media is making us lazy. We rely too much on electronics to do the work for us. Television requires very little brain activity, which is why when we watch it, we tend to zone out, or easily forget what was just said. When watching television we only tap into the emotional side of our brain, and never think logically. Everything we learn from television goes into our short-term memory, but when we use traditional curriculum, we have to think and comprehend everything, which goes into our long-term memory. For me personally, I am a much better learner when I have to read and comprehend something on my own. To summarize, people are becoming more dependent on electronics. If we start to think on our own, without the help of the media, we will become better cognitive...
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...Also the difference in communication processes used in this crisis situation. The potential advantages and challenges associated with communicating within the organization. You will also read about the different media opportunities during the management crisis. As a director of a regional Emergency Management Office I have been receiving reports that the public water supplies of several towns in the area have become contaminated with life threating biological agents. It is my duty to address this to the organizations without causing a panic. I will allow one spoke’s person to talk about the crisis and answer any question. This spoke’s person will tell the truth and the facts and do it in a fast manner. I will also form a crisis team; the team will involve individuals who are the key to the crisis. Once the team is formed each team member will be educated on his or her responsibilities. I will also have the spokes person schedule a press conference with the media to inform the public what is going on. Also the spokes person will be someone who is comfortable in front of a TV and with reporters. I will also ask the Governor and Director of the Water Waste Manger to attend the press conference. I will take lead of the proper use of proper technology for instance social media, affecting communication throughout this crisis...
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...Communication Coordinator KelseyGeoghegan HCS/320 09/01/2014 Tracey Coble Communications Coordinator When you work as a Communications Coordinator for a national drug manufacturer who finds out there were negative effects that have been caused by one of the medications that is used by a huge population of people, it has to be handled carefully because there is so many lives are on the line. It does not matter if it is a popular person or not, organizations have to be prepared for negative issues that can happen at any time especially law suits. The communications Coordinator has to watch everything they say when it comes to having to talk to any news reporters or anyone you might have to speak to regarding the public figure reaction to the medications. There are so many different ways to communicate when in a facility or anywere face-to-face, being verbal, making phone calls, text messages, emails, or memos for sharing information within the company. Every person that works at any company should always be notified if there is any emergency or anything that is important and should be shared. Our reading text in Health Care Communication in Chapter 10 states “choose your words-and your medium-carefully, do not use email to communicate praise, advice, criticism, or critical information”. The Coordinator specialist should needs to do a whole organizational search and look for any patient with a phone number ay information to who ever took the medictions. They need...
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...Pakistani culture. It is about cultural history and tradition story telling and passion. Truck art has been present in Pakistan's heritage for age . Today, this artistic media has reached it's culmination point with it's vibrant colours and craftmanship. As such every little adornment on a trucks has a special significance. As we know that our country is divided into different teritories so why not spread a message of a sovereign and united country with the theme pakistan on wheels. Each territory has it's distinct lifestyle. The culture and heritage of each province of Pakistan should be painted with intricate motifs and vibrant colours. Art motifs of such birds, fish and flower which depicts each province should be illustrated. Other than this famous scenic beauties like dyllic, bucolic scenes of streams, mountains or forest should be painted to embody each territory. The metal base of the truck always seem to make the multi-coloured truck transformed into a weak tea. So it could be covered with reflected stickers, scintillating tapes and further highlighted with mirrors and studs. For the finishing touches the intricately patterned crown carved in cedarwood should be placed at the top of the bus. This artistry employs a huge number of skilled labourers thus boosting the economy of the country. This artistic media is no more confined to Pakistan only but has spread it's splendor across borders and has become a tourism symbol of Pakistan.Thus we should make an effort to keep this...
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...NIC Final Exam Timetable 201501 (Trimester) Duration (mins) Reading Time (mins) Start Exam Start Exam End Room Principles of Marketing Surveying I Advanced Mathematics I Advanced Mathematics II Electrical Engineering I 180 180 180 180 180 10 10 0 0 10 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.10 9.10 9.00 9.00 9.10 12.10 12.10 12.00 12.00 12.10 GP3-18 GP3-18 GP3-20 GP3-20 GP3-20 CMNS1234 ICS001A Introduction to Digital Communication Intercultural Studies 60 150 0 10 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.10 3.00 4.40 GP3-20 * NNIC1000 A NIC-ECON1002 COM201A MATH1120 Communication & Literacy Stream A Macroeconomics for the Global Economy Communication Skills II Mathematics II 120 120 120 180 10 10 10 0 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.10 9.10 9.10 9.00 11.10 11.10 11.10 12.00 GP3-18 GP3-18 GP3-18 GP3-20 COM200A Communication Skills I 180 10 2.00 2.10 5.10 * NIC-IRHR1001 MATH1110 INFT1001 Managing the Organisation Mathematics I Foundations of Information Technology 150 180 180 10 0 10 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.10 9.00 9.10 11.40 12.00 12.10 GP3-18 GP3-20 GP3-20 HBI001A GENG1803 COM101A NIC-ACFI1002 Human Biology Introduction to Engineering Practice Programming Accounting Practice 120 180 120 180 10 10 10 10 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.10 2.10 2.10 2.10 4.10 5.10 4.10 5.10 GP3-18 GP3-18 ...
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...technology, comes emergence in social media. The popularity of social media networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, Blogs and Instagram has taken the world by storm. Almost everyone in society has access to the internet. Although, the internet serves as a great source of information, it also has many other purposes. However, like every great thing in the world, there is a downside. One of the biggest benefits and downfalls of social media is the ability to share information to a broad audience, and if you’re the target of that information, it can easily ruin your life. If one person knows about the negative impact of social media, it’s Ray Rice. On September 8, 2014 Ray...
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...liability reasons, all approved messages must be verified by an email response showing approval. Templated Message: This is an emergency notification from Buncombe County HHS… • (_______________) has been verified by our agency. Please stay away from the area until law enforcement has cleared the area. • Due to hazardous weather conditions, Buncombe County will close offices at XXXXX . Please contact your supervisor with any questions. On call XXXXX should contact their supervisors with any concerns. After receiving a Nixle alert, employees can contact their supervisor if they have questions about the information provided or next steps. When an employee receives a Nixle alert, they are not to contact members of the news media or share the information via social media. Information on how to use Nixle to contact employees in the event of a public health emergency can be found in the BCHHS Crisis Communication Plan. Administrators designated to send Nixle alerts must register upon assignment of this duty and must keep their contact information up to date. Questions about this policy or about Nixle may be directed to hhsalert@buncombecounty.org or (828) 775-1321. ...
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...Essay 1 – First Draft New Media is Shaping Our Lives In the contemporary world, the importance of new media in people’s lives can never be dısregarded. Everybody should realize that new media has been affecting today’s world. This is mainly because; new media types help people at various issues. However, some people believe that new media is not preferable and ıt has a lot of drawback, some others believe that new media is useful and preferable. Even ıf mostly argue that. New media is not beneficial for individuals; in fact; new media is fundamental for today’s human-beings. In terms of education, business and socialization. The most prominent benefit of new media is education. This is because; todays chıldren benefit from new media types. Thanks to new media such as the ınternet, chıldren who use this kind of facilities might learn more effectively. Therefore, lecturers tend to educate chıldren with the help of new media. In addition, children need to learn new media types since since ıf they want to be successful in today’s world, children have to be knowledgeable about new media. They have to know, how to use computer systems or being knowledgeable about new technological devices. In addition, ıt is significant for university students. This is mainly because, a score of university prefer to use new media types. For this reason some of the universities disturbing laptops and tablets. Thanks...
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