EDUC106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Investigative Journalism, Phonics, Numeracy
28 Aug 2018
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* a society becomes modern when a person stays at home and reads the paper over going to church. * architype of news, same format of news recirculating. * the news occupies the same dominant position in modern society as religion once did. * we don"t begin to understand its impact on us. * media is the basis of telling you how (cid:1688)the complex machine(cid:1689) pf your country is working. * news organisations exaggerate how many stories there are. * the news is full of anomalies to the point where the anomalies can become the norm. * it is the patterns and the themes formed by the stories over time that is important. * there is therefore no such thing as (cid:1688)australia(cid:1689) it is created in part by the news. * celebrities are manufactured by the news machine. * creating envy is a powerful factor in news media. * foreign news tends to focus only on disasters.
