JOUR 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John Peter Zenger, John Stuart Mill, Yellow Journalism
21 Feb 2016
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Functions of journalism: to help people satisfy the need to know. Enabling citizens in a democratized society to make informed decisions. Comfort the afflicted and inflict the comforted finley, ex-syrian refugee, edward. Snow, vietnam war: information needs to be reliable>trust worthy > gain public trust, laws for journalists to use: Freedom of information (to get info from govt/corp) **legislative limits to avoid taking advantage of freedom/charter of rights. Journalists work as a gatekeeper; decide/edit what is news, exercise news judgement based on relevance of info to their audience (citizens) Timelines, proximity, prominence, disaster, change, conflict, consequence, human interest, novelty. Ie subsidy, funded by corporations, ie operate on a profit motif. The more readers/viewers/hits on your page increase proft. The larger the audience the larger the advertising ie they make more money. This makes the content selective (biased towards its clients) so some increased audience by tabloid news (et.
