COMM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Personalization

• School: U of M
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 102
• Professor: Nojin Kwak

Document Summary

The ideological bias (liberal vs. conservative) of reporters or new organizations is not a major concern. The news tends to cover events that can be most easily dramatized in simple stories. The isolation of stories from each other and from their larger contexts so that information in the news becomes fragmented and hard to assemble into a big picture. Exaggerated by the severe space limits nearly all media impose for fear of boring readers and viewers with too much information: authority-disorder bias. The news is preoccupied with order, along with related questions of whether the authorities are capable of establishing or restoring it.