COMM 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Junk Food News, Tabloid Journalism, Oligopsony

• School: Fordham University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMM 1000
• Professor: Ashar Foley

Document Summary

Be familiar with and able to discuss the following concepts and questions: Mediated communication and economic, political, and social power. Newspaper report on political power, western center of power is secret, until the coming of press. Rupert murdoch"s contribution to the current media landscape (mcchesney) Partisanship becomes a selling point of what was formerly news. powerful force within publican party politics (have double standard in treating republican officials and that of. Neoliberalism and its expression in popular entertainment (grazian) Neoliberalism: associated with global free trade and the deregulation of industry, the weakening of union labor, a decline in welfare assistance and social service provision, and the privatization of publicly-owned resources. Emergence of reality-based programming as illustrative of the post-modern blurring of boundaries separating fact from fiction; About morality: strong individual, not collective solution moral failure in order to win, Representation is how what lies on the fringes moves into the center, becomes normalized;