COMM 1100U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Grenfell Tower Fire, Print Culture, Environmental Issue
13 Jun 2018
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Lecture 8
Flashback
• Print culture and the professionalization of journalism
• Coetio etee jouralis, defiitios/epetatios of es ad tehologial
developments
• Produce news quickly and have everyone know about it
• Time can be devoted to news gathering
Citizen Journalism
• A idepedet person who is not attached to or employed by a media organization
who witnesses an event, and then provides an account of that event using traditional
ad e jouralisti fors Hirst et al, p.
• putting job of determining what news is important in the hands of ordinary people
• goes after gate-keeping
Recent Examples
• Grenfell tower fire (London)
• Standing Rock – pipeline protests (the Dakotas)
o Environmental issue
• Aleppo under siege (Syria)
• Murder of Philando Castile (Minnesota)
Another flashback
Terms for thinking critically about how journalism functions:
• gate-keeping
o ability of people in news place to let something make ii into news and keep some
things out
• agenda-setting
o e does’t tell us hat to thik ut tells us hat to thik aout. B rigig
attention to certain news
• framing
o pay attention to word choice used to describe event. Word choice matters
Factors to consider when evaluating news and journalism:
• ownership
o who owns the news can impact what makes it into the news
• advertising
o what advertisements used in the news that will be most beneficial
• flack
o decision to avoid saying certain things about certain people because those
people are in power. It could negatively impact your business
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Document Summary
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