COM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Order, The Huffington Post, Media Literacy
16 Jun 2016
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Concept of news: news = a report on change, newsworthiness = a ranking of news that helps decide what makes i into news packages. Bennett news model: james gordon bennett = early penny press publisher, founder of new. ***case study: the mccarthy lessons**: joseph mccarthy = senator from wisconsin, fueled by anti-communist hysteria 1950-1954, edward r. murrow = cbs television reporter who confronted mccarthy on demagoguery. Hutchins news model: robert hutchins = philosopher whose interests included news practices, hutchins commission = recommends reforms in news practices to emphasize social responsibility, benjamin harns = published public occurrences . Public occurrences first colonial newspaper, boston 1690: joseph pulitzer = emphasized human interest in newspapers, later moved sensationalism to greater heights. Rethinking news model: the environments in which news businesses functioned were very different in the eras when the bennett model and hutchins model were used, useful dividing point is 1947 when the hutchins commission called for.
