CS101 Lecture Notes - Investigative Journalism, Mass Media, Bourgeoisie
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Journalism isn"t as big in canada as we might expect. Canadian newspapers are fairly recent by historical perspectives (1760) India has 35 000 newspapers, we might get 2000 3000 in canada. * the interest of the community generated the topics and interests of the newspapers. Farmer"s friend newspaper related to farmers: the contemporary period (post 1860) beginning consolidation where small newspapers joined together. News is the content of the newspaper that is promoted as news. What they are feeding us as news is not necessarily news worthy. News is a form of story-telling, people aren"t able to generate two sides of a story so they make an anecdote. News value depends on topical communities some people will spend all day reading a newspaper about gadgets because they are passionate about it (politics, automobiles, famous people, etc) no community = no coverage. Boundaries are constructed to preserve the knowledge and values in the news generation system.
