JOURN 201 Study Guide - Final Guide: Chicago Tribune, Happy Talk, Google News
30 Oct 2014
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Fnc fox news channel; conservative bias; call themselves fair and balanced debuted in 1996; say they are perceived as conservative because they haven"t fallen for all of the media hoopla. Cross ownership an investment in different mass media markets; i. e. e a newspaper that owns a radio station: chicago tribune and wgn radio and wgn tv. Jon stewart becoming a legitimized news source despite presenting the news in a satirical manner. Spike in viewership cable tv networks experienced huge jumps in ratings and viewers during the 2008 presidential election, but the ratings plummeted following obama"s victory. Reality tv the most productive way to use commercial tecnhologies in focusing on individuals in confined and controlled spaces sealed from foreign cultures. Partisan journalism the opposite of objective journalism; partisan journalism employs a political bias, usually either favoring conversatives or liberals. Mature industry used to describe journalism, refers to an industry that is old while newer types of conveying the news have arisen.
