For the first time, I watched PBS News Hour on Wednesday, February 8, 2017. The immediate breaking news headlines addressed: Trump defending immigration bill and fight against the judges, public protesting against possible immigration bill, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (Democrat for Massachusetts) speech. Throughout the whole news hour there was never any breaks for commercials. It was a straight hour of information and worldwide news. Throughout the show, there were two fairly long interviews. The first being with the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan where the news anchor drilled him with questions about Trump and his actions. The news anchor multiple times argued against him, making it somewhat eligible to see her viewpoint. Another interview …show more content…
PBS goes into more detail about the breaking news and with longer strung out interviews, because it is a longer broadcast. Also, I could tell between the anchors this was a more liberal/democratic view of news. The network stations are only thirty minute segments which means the anchors only have a few minutes for each story they want to talk about. This allows them to only hit the high points and not all the details. As far as these networks being biased towards a republican or democratic point of view, at times this is easy to point out and other times the stories come out unbiased. Interestingly enough PBS and the network stations all had the same breaking news. Except for PBS who never spoke anything about the weather, like most network stations do. I think there are more short stories displayed in network news then there are on PBS. PBS tends to hit a few important stories but, talks about them for a long time, leaving not enough time to do short stories. All stations did include the same bits and pieces of president Trump speaking as well as Elizabeth Walker. The network news did not have time to do long personal interviews like PBS did. At the end of PBS and the network news all of the anchors did a simple, sweet story to lighten up the evening. Each one of these stories were different but, unique in their own way. This is the anchors way of showing that there is still good in the world. Not everything is dark and depressing. This adds a personal touch to keep fans coming back for the next news
There are similarities and differences in how the authors of “American History” and “ TV Coverage of JFK’s Death Forged Mediums’ Role” use Kennedy’s assassination in their writing.
A Bestselling author and co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” is a remarkably confident lady and TV-journalist Mika Brzezinski whose on-air protest between entertainment news & “hard news” received a large number of supports and fans’ responses on 26 June 2007 in which she had refused to read the news about a release of Paris Hilton from Jail rather she considered more important Senator Richard Lugar with President Bush on the war of Iraq breaking news. She stands on these issues rippled over the internet quickly and similar incidents continue on-air on July 7, 2010 on a report about Levi Johnston and Lindsay Lohan over hard news stories with the title “News you can’t use.”
"NOW with Bill Moyers – Transcript - Bill Moyers Interviews Mary Zimmerman – PBS”, op. cit.
“Fake” news programs, such as The Daily Show, Zinser reasonably argues, have the potential to dilute mass media and deceive viewers. The Daily Show has been straightforward about its lack of legitimacy as a hard hitting news program, but “the show’s content and guest list suggest otherwise” (Zinser 367). Zinser indicates that The Daily Show should hold itself to higher standards because “people might well think they’re being fully or sufficiently informed while watching” (367). In other words, Zinser believes that if viewers tune in with the expectation of becoming informed and The Daily Show’s content consists of significant topics, the creators ...
In the article, “A liberal’s defense of Fox News”, Susan Estrich argues that the claims against Fox News are invalid and quite lacking. Estrich herself works at Fox News as a commentator and she seems to be quite qualified for her job as she is a tenured and titled law and politics professor at University of Southern California. For most of the part, Estrich delivers what seems to be a solid defense of Fox News. Estrich particularly writes the article amidst criticism faced by two journalists of Fox News regarding not following proper journalistic procedure in two separate interview that they had. The article was published in 2005 when the US was dealing with the aftermath of Iraq War and also faced several other issues of deficit. Estrich defends the actions by Fox News and further tries to paint Fox News as a news channel that follows proper journalistic integrity. Despite the article appearing to be convincing, I would not recommend the article to WRI 101 freshmen because the
Before 1968 the nightly news would simply broadcast headlines comparable to reading a newspaper. But 60 Minutes became a television newsmagazine offering the reader revealing, on camera stories about happenings around the world. Viewers of the show became better informed as to actual business, political, and science practices. Howard Stringer, president of CBS Broadcast Group, says that "60 Minutes invented a new genre of television programming-the newsmagazine-and in the process had a dramatic impact on the television industry and the viewing habits of the American people." Stringer's comment is very true because if one were to scan through a TV index today, they would see that nearly all channels are infested with talk shows, tabloid programs, interview shows of famous personalities, and other "caught on tape" types of programs, all of which Given that 60 Minutes set a new standard for presenting the public with ground-breaking stories, creator and producer of the show, Don Hewitt, says "It"s what you hear more often than what you see that holds your interest. The words you hear and not the pictures you see are essentially what 60 Minutes is all about." The shows that were influenced by 60 Minutes, such as the many tabloid programs being shown today, built off the 60 Minutes principle and created gossip, and shocking video segments.
With every large successful materialistic object or figure in society comes its pros and cons. For the Fox News Channel, these pros and cons include its overall ratings and viewership. For over a number of years Fox News has remained atop of the rating scale in the number one spot, providing the public with the news. People claim it is biased and justly unfair, however, it is that very news that they produce which has made it famous and one of the most well respected news networks to this day.
A good part of Outfoxed focuses on the company's blurring of news and commentary, how anchormen and reporters are encouraged to repeatedly use catch-phrases like "some people say..." as a means of editorializing within a supposedly objective news story; how graphics, speculation and false information are repeated over-and-over throughout the broadcast day until it appears to become fact, and in doing so spreads like a virus and copied on other networks. A PIPA/Knowledge Networks Poll points to glaring, fundamental misconceptions about the news perpetuated upon Fox viewers, versus information received from widely respected news-gathering organizations like NPR and PBS. Asked, for instance, "Has the U.S. found links between Iraq & al-Qaeda?" only 16% of PBS and NPR viewers answered "yes," but a frightening 67% of Fox viewers believed there had.
This could be hard news or soft news. News programmes such as E! Entertainment features a lot more soft news as opposed to BBC News which features primarily hard news stories. They all contain factual content because they are there to inform the audience. Pace also varies between different news programmes. Newsround for example is very fast paced and is only around 5 minutes long. This is to keep the younger audience entertained and interested throughout the entire programme. The subjects and issues that are discussed in Newsround are aimed at younger people. However. The pace of BBC News is slightly slower and the news programmes are usually around 30 minutes. BBC News also contains headlines or pre-titles at the beginning of the programmes so that if you can't sit and watch a 30 minute news programme, you can just watch the first 5 or so minutes to catch the headlines and get a general insight into the news. The content of BBC News and the subjects they report on are a lot more formal and sophisticated as the target audience is a lot
In “Reporting the News” by George C. Edwards III, Martin P. Wattenberg, and Robert L. Lineberry, the main idea is how the media determines what to air, where to get said stories that will air, how the media presents the news, and the medias effect on the general public. “Reporting The News” is a very strong and detailed article. The authors’ purpose is to inform the readers of what goes on in the news media. This can be inferred by the authors’ tone. The authors’ overall tone is critical of the topics that are covered. The tone can be determined by the authors’ strong use of transitions, specific examples, and phrases or words that indicate analysis. To summarize, first, the authors’ indicate that the media chooses its stories that will air
Each anchor has their own viewpoint of the world and determines, in their way, how to portray that information in mainstream media. Anchors in news stations will try in any way to make themselves look like they are in the right, even if they have to change the stories to appeal to certain audiences. Viewers sometimes may have awareness where they know that some of the things they see on Fox are not true, but will viewers honestly fact check everything they see or hear on the news? No, not really, they would rather just hear it, feel what they want to feel, and it eventually becomes
“The old argument that the networks and other ‘media elites’ have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it’s hardly worth discussing anymore…No we don’t sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we’re going to slant the news. We don’t have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.” (Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News) This example is tremendously important in the author’s discussion because it proves that news stories do manipulate people through bias. Popular news networks are viewed by thousands of people every single day, thus making it have a huge impact on the public since they believe what they see. When news reporters present their news segments, it is natural for them to give their insights due to human nature being instinctively biased. “The news media is [sic] only objective if they report something you agree with… Then they’re objective. Otherwise they’re biased if you don’t agree, you know.” (CNN’s American Morning) In this quote, the readers are presented to current panelists agreeing that news consumers have a very hard time separating their own view of the news from the perspective of the news reporters because they are presenting their own opinions throughout their segments. This problem exists once again because of the bias that is contained in media
If a member of the public had not seen Zaky’s question on the program, they would have relied on what they had read. If someone had read the first article that would be in support of the ABC and understand that not everyone agrees with their views. If someone had read the second piece they would attack the ABC and believe they are supporting terrorism.
From the beginning days of the printing press to the always evolving internet of present day, the media has greatly evolved and changed over the years. No one can possibly overstate the influential power of the new media of television on the rest of the industry. Television continues to influence the media, which recently an era of comedic television shows that specialize in providing “fake news” has captivated. The groundbreaking The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and its spin-off The Colbert Report have successfully attracted the youth demographic and have become the new era’s leading political news source. By parodying news companies and satirizing the government, “fake news” has affected the media, the government, and its audience in such a way that Bill Moyers has claimed “you simply can’t understand American politics in the new millennium without The Daily Show,” that started it all (PBS).
From viewing all of the above programs, I concluded the following details. All the news channels demonstrate bias. Government channels such as SBS and ABC are usually better at presenting the world news than other channels, but at times they can get tedious with their bias towards the Government. The best presenters of current affairs were probably channel 9, as they did not spend too much time confronting politicians, and alleged criminals. So in conclusion, I don’t believe that any of the free-to-air channels is better than the others at presenting the news. So I believe that the only way to get a decent sort of news is to observe a series of broadcasts, then take the information that you think is relevant.