JRN 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Satellite Truck, Broadcast Journalism, Fourth Estate
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If you are engaged in the events of your era, then journalism is the best career to have. Journalism is the fourth estate: execuive, legislaive, and judicial. Media coverage tens to focus on leaders(rather than policy: audiences like to atach a face to the news-good or bad, so the leaders oten get face ime. Also, covering conlict is easier-reacing is easier than being pro- acive: scandals: sex sell (or they think so, brevity: short stories. The belief is that we all have add and wont want to read long aricles: horse races: campaign polls. Framing: shaping how the audience sees reality. They don"t get fame, but they have all of the power. Photojournalist: you have to be there, if you miss it, it won"t happen again, shoot everything-acion, reacion, and everything in between, shoot a ton of images, even if you only need one.