COM 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Netflix
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Tv is starting to see the financial benefits of the netflix model. Give people what they want, when they want it, where they want it, at a price they can afford . The more people care about the event, the more newsworthy. Proximity- big news in one area might not mean anything other places. The wow test: violence, sex, race, celebrity, proximity, quality of pictures, tend not to focus on political, or private stories. They end up in print because they are not public and therefore able to photograph: location/media capital bias, predictability. Need to feed the goat. : the goat is the news media. Journalists write about the things they know and the things that interest them and the people who surround them. This ends up giving [news] coverage and upper-class tinge. sean. Master narrative: find story, find facts to match up with this, produce story. Examples of this: lance armstrong, notre dame football player, marilyn monroe.
