JRN185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Google News
29 Apr 2020
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Argued that newspapers remained strong in the video era. Writing before the internet became the force it is today. The advent of television had significantly increased the importance of mass media around the world, but wide political and social influence television had added to, and not subtracted from, the general press and newspapers. Newspapers, he wrote, exercised a continuing prerogative both for biasing the news and slanting the comment" Newspapers, not television, that go for the jugular of the leader. Usually the newspaper that first spills the blood of the politician; only then will. Tv dive in for the replay of action. Fewer people now read a daily newspaper every day but maybe three or four days a week. Each newspaper was much fatter than it was a few decades ago. In an era of semi-regular newspaper reading, said tunstall. Still towering and stooping over the scattered digital media, the somewhat reduced tv networks and the somewhat arthritic daily papers.
