MC 2000 Lecture : MC 2000 Notes 2
Document Summary
The sound bite : something repeat over and over, mitt rodman i don"t care for the poor , pretty face and happy-talk culture, visual language and critical limits, biased journalism. The new face of journalism: public journalism: more community involvement but does it pander to what the community wants to hear, fake news and satiric journalism, the blogisphere. History of the inverted pyramid: most important facts are in the first paragraph, supplementary information. History: penny press and mass circulation: new york sun launched by printer benjamin day in 1833, price is a penny per copy (instead of subscription sales). Increased literacy, rising middle class, improved printing: new definition of news: focus on middle class, not elite, advent of professional reporters to collect news. History: yellow journalism feeds demand hearst n. y. world vs. pulitzer: sensational reporting aka yellow journalism , overstatement of fact, emphasis on undue aspects of the situation, association of the subject of the story with irrelevant issue.
