The World of Mass Media

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The world of Mass Media is a complicated place as told by former TV and Radio reporter, Al Meyers. “You never know what you’re going to be doing, but then there’s the ability to be able to do it and to share that with the people who are listening.” Meyers, who is retired, gave me the pleasure of sitting down and talking to me about the world of Mass Media Communication, then and now.

Most of what we hear about in the world today comes to us as it is broadcasted through the television news networking stations and the Radio broadcasts throughout the day. It is constantly being updated by the minute as news breaks everywhere, whether it is locally or internationally. However what about the people who present us the news, the people who work around the clock to bring us the necessary details surrounding a matter? Ultimately, what forces shape how media content is made? “It all starts on a typical day, you wake up, go out and find your story; news doesn’t have a set schedule, says Meyers. “Most of our main content comes from press releases that we receive from PR agents, and the rest of it comes from whatever is happening out in society.” A typical day in the day of a news reporter like Al consists of getting up extremely early in the morning, because news doesn’t wait for you, and either going out to cover a story, otherwise listening to their own radio at home, and then while travelling to work talking to other reporters at their station listening getting updated on what they missed, as well as working on what is first priority and getting the coverage needed to break the story. “It’s all about getting their first; you want to be the station that breaks a story first that way early morning listeners are always receiving the latest a...

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...nd write the news, but it is job of the higher ups, PR agents and editors who ultimately decided what they believe the public needs to know. The rest of it they either scrap or file away for those slow news days.”

In the end of the long tiresome process that comes with establishing the final product of media content that is broadcasted to the world, at the end of the day the forces that ultimately shape how media content is made, are the people behind the news and the people to present the news to society. People make the news what it is; any relevant situation that concerns society’s way of life, the way we think, what we do, how we do it, and the other factors that affect us specifically in a personal or communal way is considered as a message to be transmitted to the rest of the public so that everyone is on the same page, updated on the latest news and events.

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