...I chose to do my project on journalists in war zones because I am really interested in current events that are going on around the world. Journalists are the reason why I have access to information on these current events, so this topic instantly caught my eye when I saw it. I am also really interested in the events that happen during war. This combination lead me to put his topic as my number one, and thankfully, I got it. Before I started my project, I knew that many journalists have entered war zones to report on the current situation for hundreds of years. I had seen many videos about this, with one showing how a trapped crew got out of combat while in the Middle East. These videos made me think that these journalists were out of their minds when they could be shot at almost anytime. Other than this, I didn’t know much else about this topic....
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...Since a young age I’ve always had an interest in the media and when I began media studies at gcse I continuously became more aware of how dominant the media in the world is. When I began my A level in media studies I became to recognise how powerful the media in the world is and how it is frequently done by broadcast journalists. I’ve always loved the feeling of personal achievement and having pride in what I do, I’m aware that broadcast journalism would bring me high level of satisfaction and achievement. Also, I consider myself as wanderlust, the opportunity to international travel reporting significant events would be an overwhelming experience. Furthermore, I believe the essence of broadcast journalism is people and their stories, the chance to meet different people from different cultures and paths of life would give me personally such a thrill and an irreplaceable memory. Moreover, the variety of jobs within broadcast journalism is outstanding, the idea to go to work and not know what your job will entail that day because it includes so many different events and stories, which need coverage is so exciting for me personally. Teamwork is personally a strong skill of mine as I communicate effectively to others, which would be put to good use within broadcast journalism. Finally, the range of job opportunities which I could put my practical skills to use in, are broadcasts which I persistently follow, but also influence and inspire me personally (television, radio and...
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...the news. The Concise Oxford Dictionary describes the journalist as “one whose business it is to edit, or write for a journal, especially a newspaper.” Catherine Dean, Lecturer at Strathmore University states “journalism is understood in broader terms, to refer to the art of communicating, transmitting facts, events, information,opinions and so on to the general public, using any of the wide variety of means for communication that exist in our society today.” (Dean, 2006, p. 3) News should be “new, interesting and relevant.” (Maxwell, 2000, p. 36) . It should therefore have objectivity in its presentation. To be objective is defined by the Oxford Online Dictionary as “not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in representing facts.” However since this cannot be done, as we all have our biases and perceptions, a journalist in his pursuit of professionalism must be present a balanced and fair presentation of the news. To be fair as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is to be “consonant with merit and importance.” This means that one must show consistency in his or her presentation of work. Former Curator of The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Bill Kovach defines of fairness in journalism as “… more than objectivity. It includes honest and balanced judgments in reporting, writing, editing and presentation of news.” So in order to be seen as not being overly influenced or too subjective, journalists must look to present their work as being honest, stating...
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...Sociology was born not when good and evil were defined by what is useful or harmful to society, but rather when this correlation, exalted by the utilitarians, was placed in doubt because individualism seemed to have become a menace to society. This disjunction of the actor and the system led the most radical thinkers to conceive of a system without actors, dominated by determinisms and impersonal powers, and others to describe actors without a system, constructing in a normative void the forms of their interaction with actors who were strangers. Homo sociological, exalted by political philosophy, has disappeared. The globalization of the economy, which has entailed a weakening of the social and political controls that existed at the national level, has led in return to the development of identity politics which no longer defend a function but a being, not a project but a memory, which contradicts the evolution that has long defined modernity. We cannot establish a link between the system and the actor unless the latter is defined by the construction of his or her own liberty and not by the playing of specific social roles, and the former as a civil society in which the collective conditions of individual freedom are created. Social solidarity is the condition of cultural diversity, that is to say, the possibility for each person to combine in his or her own way their identity with participation in the techno-economic world. Sociology is the scientific study of human social behaviour...
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...Practical Tips for Business and Economic Reporting in Developing Economy, Mr. Paul Hemp talks about the ten Hemp rules. These rules are aimed at making business and economic stories, understandable and interesting. According to Hemp, The basic problem with business and economic news is that they are complicated and boring. Complicated news bores people. A journalist must make it understandable and interesting. He adds that the three rules of making stories understandable are explain, explain and explain. This former Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review, says in his book that Business, financial or economics journalists could improve the effectiveness of their communication if they followed a few simple rules: 1. Use statistics sparingly 2. Avoid economic jargon 3. Define economic terms 4. Compare statistics 5. Turn statistics into stories 6. Humanize business news 7. Generate unusual business story ideas 8. Go beyond the press release 9. Get the other side to a business story 10. Show the significance of business news 1. Use statistics sparingly A financial, business or economics journalist should always use numbers sparingly in his or her stories. For example, when doing a business story, Instead of, writing "Maize production...
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...| The Role of Media in War | | | “Journalists will say that war is too important to be left to generals. Reporting of war is too important to be left to reporters. Soldiers need to get involved in this.” | -Maj Gen Patrick Brady - 1990 | (former Public Relations Chief of US Army) | The revolution in information technology, from the transistor through widespread digitisation, deeply networked communications, as well as, the revolutionary changes in the employment of airpower have profoundly influenced analysts and planners and has completely changed the conduct of war.The Gulf War afforded the world its first glimpse of the future of warfare. Millions around the globe were treated to precision-guided bombs annihilating targets in downtown Baghdad, learned of satellite uplinks from the battlefield that provided real-time connectivity, and applauded the ability of Stealth aircraft to ensure aerial dominance. Everyone seemed to understand that something was different about this “Video-game war”. There was much more to the spectacle than the one provided by previous wars. How much of it was real and how much rigged, are discussed below. More recently India’s use — or rather abuse — of the media to dupe its own people during the Kargil Crisis is a case in point. The important thing to note is that the revolutions in the field of information technology have caused the media to have a much greater impact on operations. Thus it is imperative to take a closer look at the intricate...
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...Broadcast can be confusing, not on how the news is reported, but what is reported in the news. Numerous times we look to the news for the correct information just to find out later on that only some of the information was true. Bias is the tendency or preference towards a particular perspective trying to be explained. The grand old party (GOP) observed bias in CNBC’s handling of candidates questions during the third debate. (Washington Post, 1) As the third debate starts republicans believed that the network’s questioning was both biased and trivial. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas had a forceful and bitter verbal attack with the moderator Carl Quintanilla about whether he is resistant to a bipartisan budget deal which makes him look less appealing...
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...significant effort is made to downplay opposing points of view which is another indication of a lack of truth in a news story (Doliver, 1999). In fact, opposing views are so held in disdain that they are presented as being criminal. To support this, those holding opposing perspectives are viewed as being disobedient, and those who support favorable immigration policies are perceived as defying President Trump. Tancredo goes so far as to state that progressives are against the United States Government (Tancredo, 2017). The author’s view is that immigrants’ criminal behavior is largely ignored by mainstream media (Tancredo, 2017). Suppression of those with opposing views continues in this article with open mocking of journalists. The author refers to the nation’s journalists as “lax” which is a sociocentric ploy to make the group feel more correct and empowered than others. Nonetheless, this is not accurate or trustworthy reporting. This appeals to the group mentality of the target audience. Article Perspective The article clearly uses questionable news tools as well as sociocentric thinking to write a very biased article. As a result, immigrants are viewed as highly undesirable with a proclivity towards crime which results in many negative ramifications to the target group of the article. In truth, the diversity which immigrants add to American culture is highly desired and very beneficial (Stanfield, 2016). The article results in a strengthening of the sociocentric attitude and...
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...Factors Affecting the Students pursuing Journalism and Media Studies The development and progress of human society always brings about new situations, creates new professions and changes the nature of the ones that exist already. One of the occupations that have recently undergone rather drastic changes is that of a journalist1. A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. Journalism is not an easy task it is not just about writing and broadcasting of what is the happening in our society. Journalist is not all about of what they saw, it uses passion and to know exactly the reality behind the topic. It is said that journalists embody the freedom of information and now the world is a hectic mess today. News is happening all around us, and the only source that acts as a filter between the chaos and ourselves is the media. The media, journalists especially, must hold upon themselves a great responsibility when they are acting as this filtering apparatus between the ordered and unordered. But is that the only thing journalism does: make sense of the news? No, it does much more than that. Good journalism is working, with help from the citizenry, to create an enlightened Republic filled with citizens who will be well informed of the events which intersect their lives2. Also journalism degree is not just a useless piece of paper, no matter what many have heard, we should care about journalism because its central...
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...State of Play Part 5 Plot Once again we start at Heralds. All the journalists are trying to figure out the puzzle with all the different information they have from Warner Schloss, Foy, U-ex oil etc. Cameron gets a bit upset at his employees because he wants them to write a story soon, or else other newspapers will steal it from them. Callum visits Greer to find out of more in the hiring of Sonia. Greer says that the minister of energy, George Fergus, hired Sonia, and that’s lead to another clue. On the police station Foy gets interrogated. He tells his “story” in a few minutes, and finds out that it is not the police that have been chasing him in the grey rover in episode 4. Right after he bumps into Della and tells about the people who are following him. They change cars to secure Foy, and agree to meet in front of the hotel later. The journalist, Helen, is asking Fergus if he was the one who hired Sonia to work for U-ex oil, but he gets insulted and angry, and says that she should keep her mouth closed if she wants to keep her job. Foy is scared, he thinks that he might get killed because of his dirty job at Warner Schloss, but he will still not tell the journalists about it. Now Foy and Stephen meet up with all the journalists, but not face to face. Stephen overhears Callum and Della’s questioning of Foy. He tells the whole story about Sonia’s hiring, together with a contact person for U-ex oil, called Paul Canning. Sonia operated with dirty money, and wanted to...
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...Ahmadinejad is portrayed to us as someone whom is dangerous to the world. However his speeches are cut and pasted and we only hear partial of what all he says. Some of the things he has said about Israel has been altered by 'misread interpretation.' This to me is disturbing once realized we have some political interests of war with another nation. Americans are slowly realizing that our media's omission's, distortions, and inaccurate biases is creating problems with our ability to obtain objective viewpoints. This I believe dumb down our society and we don't know what to think or who to vote for. We are easily persuaded to believe in what we see visually on TV and not actually truly educated on real events around the world. Our journalists are not allowed to pursue open investigations and unbiased objective viewpoints. Many Americans I believe never actualize themselves constantly being told how to think and what to think. This I believe is heavily in the interest to the government controlling and influencing media to manipulate a free press and functioning democracy. If the media and our source of information is not free we are only concentrating view points and undermining genuine democracy. I believe our founding fathers worst concern is now reality in America. Today we...
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...Media bias is the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. The idea of media is to bring awareness to the people. There has been times where the media has been accurate and times where it hasn’t. There has also been times when the media was truthful. Most journalists aren’t able to cover the whole story so they pick bits and pieces of what they believe is more important, and then it goes to their editor who wants the story to be juicy, they want it to stand out under any circumstances. So then the journalist has to take two steps back and take things out that are truthful and add things for “show” or things that make the story seem more interesting to either help it sell better or increase the ratings. There are many different reasons for media bias. Advertising bias in when the journalists have to reword things to please whomever it is they want to sell the story to. Corporate bias is more or less when you work for a company and your boss feels the need to recreate an “ideal” report, something that’s more interesting and that’ll catch the readers eye or viewers ear. Mainstream bias is what I consider monkey see monkey do, every reporter is reporting the exact same thing over and over. And sensationalism is when they make one particular even more relevant than another, such as a car wreck vs a plane crash. Plane crashes aren’t heard of or seen everyday so it then becomes more...
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...Social Media Responsibilities Jana Keeley Hum/186 June 05, 2012 Tanny Rodriguez Responsibilities of news media include providing the society a truthful, objectives and balanced news and information while respecting the secrecy of issues related to national security. Known tasks of journalists in the entertainment media are In the social responsibility theory of the press, the media is driven to benefit the public. It expects journalists to answer society's need for truth, requires an open and diverse debate on public issues, and honest updates of current events. In this model, media ethics is automatic because the press is free to serve its purpose for the public, as opposed to special interest groups or advertisers( referenced below). Another condition of the social responsibility model, is that news reporting cannot be dependent on groups that may encourage bias and unethical practices in exchange for financial support catchy headlines which directly affect civilians. The public learns about government and politics primarily through television and nationwide newspapers. The media has a choice of which stories to cover. Recent studies prove the exposures can have a sizeable impact in shaping the public’s view on politics. Media coverage shapes attitudes and behaviors related to judging ones capabilities of running for office. It’s a known fact that citizens often times seek out information that agrees with their pre-existing views. People will relate with a politician...
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... what are computers without the internet? Whether it is social media, online banking, or research, the internet is the main use of computers. The main problem with the internet is that it is taking the place of professional jobs that at one time were very important to people. Such jobs include photography, mailmen, bank tellers, and journalists. Shirky goes into explicit detail about the pros and cons on internet use in the daily lives of humans. Shirky had an Uncle Howard from Richmond Missouri who was very passionate about his job as a newspaperman. Howard was not very fond of change within his job and was not happy when the USA today came out. He felt his job was being taken over by people who did not appreciate and understand journalism. Shirky’s main point in his spiel is that those who use the internet are taking away the jobs of the professionals. Bloggers are especially guilty of taking away the jobs of professionals. Now-a-days anyone can go on to the internet and post on blogs and sites about their reactions or views on things. It does not take someone special to be a journalist. In fact there is no way to determine who is a journalist due to the major use of the web. Shirky is not thinking negatively about the internet, there are many good resources that the internet provides. He just is getting his point across that so many jobs that once were considered professional and needed a degree or certificate to be employed in, are now being taken over by amateurs due to...
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...Jonna C. Regondola AB Journalism -1A Factors Affecting the Students pursuing Journalism and Media Studies The development and progress of human society always brings about new situations, creates new professions and changes the nature of the ones that exist already. One of the occupations that have recently undergone rather drastic changes is that of a journalist1. A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. Journalism is not an easy task it is not just about writing and broadcasting of what is the happening in our society. Journalist is not all about of what they saw, it uses passion and to know exactly the reality behind the topic. It is said that journalists embody the freedom of information and now the world is a hectic mess today. News is happening all around us, and the only source that acts as a filter between the chaos and ourselves is the media. The media, journalists especially, must hold upon themselves a great responsibility when they are acting as this filtering apparatus between the ordered and unordered. But is that the only thing journalism does: make sense of the news? No, it does much more than that. Good journalism is working, with help from the citizenry, to create an enlightened Republic filled with citizens who will be well informed of the events which intersect their lives2. Also journalism degree is not just a useless piece of paper, no matter...
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