SOCC44H3 Lecture : Thorough notes on Lecture 3
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Effects of ownership concentration of: direct editorial influence of owners. In large companies, owners request to radio/newspaper that they want to cover a certain topic or hide certain topic. owners can request to have a story covered on liberals: much more likely in a large company that owns a large number of mass media outlets. Influence of advertisers: larger the market, larger the influence advertisers have, steinem (article) his argument is not limited to women"s articles: conflict between business criteria (profit) and journalistic ethics (be as objective as you can) In order to maximize the profit, you have to sometimes forgo the rules of journalism ethics: sometimes influence of owners/advertisers can lead to the exclusion of certain stories, payment to news sources is considered unethical. news sources are people who give you content for your news (people you interview for your news story)
