SOCIOL 2L03 Lecture : 14.docx
5 Feb 2014
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Research questions: what news filters are shaping canada"s press, news filters: factors that systematically weed out certain kinds of potential news, what blind spots exist in canada"s press, blind spots: publicly significant information about the world that systematically gets omitted from the news. Journalists" perceptions of news filters: lack of organizational resources, most frequently mentioned filter, suggested that a lack of organizational resources is creating the omission of significant news, resources they are talking about include a lack of time and money, lack of money because a lot of news organizations are slashing their operating budgets (especially private, but some of public) so they have less money to spend on news production, lack of time because a number of journalists are being laid off (as expenses are slashed, jobs are being cut) the ones that remain have to do more of the work in less time c.
