JOUA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Capital, Loss Leader, Jürgen Habermas
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We"re citizens with feeling abt certain things. Issue of being an on air personality v/s journalist. Potter box can be used t figure it out. # of ppl watching hockey night in canada dropped by almost 80: david sholts ( globe & mail) If there"s so much stuff out there, you tend to devalue it o. Salant came in and saw that news very expensive o: understood there was more to the news than money. If we don"t tell news as it is, lost our right to freedom of press. 1st time news division made money - 1986 o. Instead of being a value, became a commodity. Now we know everything, more info now than ever. At the same time, theres a decline in trust. Trust in the media declining, ppl watching is declining. Tv is not reliable yet more ppl watch it. News not doing a good job differentiating b/w fact based news & opinion.
