JOUB24H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Citizen Journalism, Micropayment, Crowdfunding
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Public service primary function is specifically to inform the citizens: not engage with the populations as consumers. Supposed to be informing citizens with representations of the world that are accurate. Psb is the supporter of local news, only media outlets that often can maintain several local small newsrooms. Us: say funding is threat to freedom of speech of other commercial factors. Government interventions: whether to support or remove outlets: gov. Print subsidies (us): public service media outlets, but a lot of money coming in form govt: remove regulation of media concentration, protect plurality, public value test placed upon outputs of psb outlets. Hosting public debate without framing the debate. The quandary for impartiality: news selectivity does not equal truth, it was already biased. The original model was not ideal, looking at newsrooms demonstrates that: including subjectivities into reporting does not mean it is more egalitarian,
