COMM ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Copycat Crime, Telemarketing, Payola

• School: UCLA
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM ST 10
• Professor: Professor Suman

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Ex: wall street journal focus on economic and financial aspects vs. mtv news report and tour dates. Bigger audience means more revenue and ratings. They make it entertaining and sensationalistic sex, crime, scandal. People argue substance is replaced with scandals to get people interested, worse during sweep months. Less coverage of government and more on crimes. Tv didn"t used to be for profit, it used to just serve the public. Opinion news is cheaper than in depth. People think anything that is non-fiction is news twitter feed. Most people through social media like facebook or browsers like yahoo that guess what you like. Creating own little world, filtering out stories they don"t agree with. Readings a news article, but not actually going to the ny times page, but you stay on facebook to read it. News sites hand over articles to social media platforms. Ads have changed as well, going to facebook and google.