Australia has a number of notable newspapers and news websites including: The Australian (national daily newspaper), The Sunday Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun, News.com.au {News Corp Australia), abc.net.au (ABC Online), The Age, and so on. (Press Reference, 2016) All these major newspapers and news websites have rather contributed coverage on the Bali Bombings in 2002.
4.2. Prime Minister Influence on Media Coverage
On 12 October 2002, a series of bombs were detonated in the Kuta area of Bali, a popular nightspot packed with tourists. Many Australians were killed in the blasts. Terrorism was immediately expected with strong links with Al-Qaeda (Davies, 2005). The event occurred during the war in Iraq was happening in the Middle East. It has been argued that Australia’s then Prime Minister John Howard framed the bombings in a way that would increase support for the war on terror and Australia’s role in it. The examination of Australia’s leading newspapers following the attack found images of the
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(See Table 2) The content analysis showed the Daily Telegraph’s (DT) coverage of the bombings was largely biased towards Australian victims, which attracted 62.2% of the articles coverage, almost 10% more than Sunday Morning Herald’s (SMH). In their October 15th front page, they captioned their photographs: “The victims of an act of war which has plunged our nation into mourning.” It significantly addressed its readers as ‘Australian mourners.’ It used the word ‘victim’ on countless of occasions in their publication. The term ‘victim’ as oppose to ‘casualty’ carried connotations that invited empathy to the readers, as the latter would be a more neutral term to use. Victimhood is evident beyond the DT’s journalists and editors, however appeals less to the SMH. (Crofts,
In reference to the media’s role, they have been highlighted for playing a part in maintaining these views by portraying victims in a certain way according to the newsworthiness of each story and their selectiveness (Greer, 2007). Furthermore, there has been an increase in both fictional crime programmes and crime documentaries, with Crimewatch particularly becoming a regular part of British viewing. In the modern context, crime has continued to represent a large proportion of news reporting and with the aid of social networking sites and self-publicity via the internet, journalists are now more able to dig even deeper into the lives of people on whom they wish to report. Newspapers continue to keep the public informed with the latest headlines and the internet has also provided opportunities for members of the public to have their input in blogs.
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The attacks that occurred on 9/11 took place on September 11th, 2001. In this devastating event, four different attacks had taken place. Each of the attacks were carried out by terrorists. The group responsible for the attack was Al-Qaeda, a militant Islamist organization that is known to be global in present day. The group itself has a network consisting of a Sunni Muslim movement that aims to make global Jihad happen. Furthermore, a stateless, multinational army that is ready to move at any given time. This terrorist group focuses on attacking non-Sunni Muslims, those who are not Muslim, and individuals who the group deems to be kafir. Ever since the late 1980s, Al-Qaeda has been wreaking havoc all around the world. The leader of the group once being Osama bin Laden. Three planes were bound for New York City while another plane headed towards Washington, D.C. which was supposed to take out the U.S. Capitol. Two of the airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center. One plane hitting the North Tower and the other hitting the South Tower. The third plane had crashed into the Pentagon taking out the western side of the building. The last and final plane was focused solely on taking out the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. but failed due to passengers of the plane coming hijacking it from the hijackers. The passengers attempted to take out the hijackers but sadly failed, crashing it into a field in Pennsylvania. Throughout the content of this paper, we will be focusing on the role of media when it comes to 9/11; more specifically: how the media's coverage of 9/11 manipulated our feelings towards 9/11, how it affected Islamophobia in America, and the lasting effects of 9/11.
In this case, the event was the murder of 13 and wounding of 23 persons at the Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. The event took place on April 22, 1999 and, because of the subsequent suicide of the two teenage perpetrators, observers could only speculate on their motivation. While students were still hiding from the gunmen and while the police were still plotting their strategy, the media coverage began. Perhaps two impulses led to the coverage. First of all, the victims were not the children of the Hutus or East Timorese or even the Kosovos. These were "our" children and the parents our "friends." Their grief could have been ours. In fact, in a month plus a few days, five million dollars were donated to the survivors and the victim families even without there being a major fund-raising drive (Morning Edition, NPR, June 8, 1999).
Media sensationalism is the first thought to come to mind when analyzing this piece from “Losing Matt Shepard”, by Beth Loffreda. A young man tied to a fence, sitting on the ground, beaten and found near death, would grab a reader’s attention, enough to shake our head and wonder what this world is coming to. A young man, slight and youthful in appearance, homosexual, tied to a fence “like a scarecrow” (238), beaten so badly that “the only spots not covered in blood were the tracks cleansed by his tears” (238), leaves the impression of stark brutality, meant to horrify the reader and leave an impression on an emotional level. Leaving an impression the media did, however, not an impression based on fact. The exaggerated journalism exercised in reporting the events of Matt Shepard is not uncommon; the media is catering to the preference of the masses. The public is the media’s platform and the more sensational the event is, the more we gravitate to it, regardless of the integrity of the piece.
Media headlines play a huge role in how a person reading or listening to a report will view the suspect and the victim, The media will often do this because of the race of the suspect or killer. “Demonstrating the power that news outlets wield in portraying victims based on images they select” (Wing). The media can portray victims and suspects however they want and
Minimizing harm done by journalism in times of war is a difficult task. Naturally, there are bits of information that the government needs to keep secret for one reason or another. There is also the danger of victims' stories being exploited and sensationalized. The SPJ's Code of Ethics recommends that journalists should "treat sources, subjects and colleagues as human beings worthy of respect" (Society). During the extreme...
Through the conventional use of pathos, ethos, and logos, Janette Turner Hospital conveys the psychological and political implications of a modern terrorist attack, which ultimately results in loss and despair.
Mass media has been an integral part of life in Canada. Its early developments largely stem from French and British ties, which later transition to American influence, sparking the rise of media. Mass media became an outlet that was able to link core Canadian institutions as well as social and cultural understandings in conjunction with the advance in technology, industry and urbanization. This paper will explore the development of mass media in Canada between the mid-nineteenth century and the 1930s with particular focus on the factors that attributed to its rise ¬– newspaper, magazines, advertising as well as radio and film supported by early technological advancements.
Crime is of specific concern in Australian society, where the media article entitled “Geraldton man jailed for 'chilling' knife attack on ex-wife and friend”, reported by Joanna Menagh on the ABC News website in March of 2018 is no exception. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, “acts intended to cause injury” can be attributed to 19% of all crimes committed between 2016 and 2017 in Australia, being one of the most common offences (2018). Where media coverage is a prominent channel of communication for crime news, employing news values is essential to maintain consumer interest. Violence is one news value which is pivotal in the success of this media article, where it is proposed that the extent of violence inflicted on victims determines the story’s newsworthiness. Knife crime prevalence in attempted murder accounts for “30–40% of such offences” (Bartels, 2012) in Australia, though there is “no upward trend in knife attacks” (Palmer, De Lint and Dalton, 2017 p 70).
Stereotypes is a big issue within the media industry. Representation within the media is to show someone or something, using a process of depicting, descripting and symbolization. Stereotypes, as described by Stuart Hall, is the “production of the meaning of the concepts in our minds through language which enables us to refer to either the ‘real’ world of objects, people or events, or indeed to imaginary worlds of fictional objects, people and events”. In his research Hall has suggested that there is two systems of representation, the first system regarding direct associations of events, people and objects that have certain mental representations and concepts that people have in their minds. Meaning is therefore
The perspectives of how people view society and the world has been based on gender. Some would say that men are the dominate ones over the years and continue hold the primary power. Others believe that women are evolving and gaining the recognition that they deserve; they are becoming more superior than men. In the next thirty years, people would agree with Brooks’ prediction of discrimination against women will diminish. However, I would disagree with prediction because there still need to be changes for women to obtain equality and the perpetual discrimination against women.
How mass media is using both Ideology and Popular Culture to develop societal expectations and social identities. This essay will look at how Ideology, Hegemony, and Popular Cultural Theory shape common values and expectations of society and media’s influence and compare and contrast differing approaches to understanding the relationship between media and society. The discussion will be contextualized through the use of gender roles and expectations, and how these theories develop and affect the female social identity.
Both groups further believed that th... ... middle of paper ... ... 004). This shows the role played by the media in the Iraqi War and how the media was used to change the general public perception about the invasion. Bibliography Knightly, P. The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: the War Correspondent .
The current role of mass media in politics has definitely played a significant role in how view and react to certain events and issues of the nation. Newspapers, magazines, television and radio are some of the ways information is passed onto many of the citizens. The World Wide Web is also an information superhighway, but not all of the sources on the Internet are credible. Therefore, I will only focus on the main three types of media: written, viewed, and audible, and how they affect whether or not democracy is being upheld in the land of the free. The media includes several different outlets through which people can receive information on politics, such as radio, television, advertising and mailings. When campaigning, politicians spend large quantities of money on media to reach voters, concentrating on voters who are undecided. Politicians may use television commercials, advertisements or mailings to point out potentially negative qualities in their opponents while extolling their own virtues. The media can also influence politics by deciding what news the public needs to hear. Often, there are more potential news stories available to the media than time or space to devote to them, so the media chooses the stories that are the most important and the most sensational for the public to hear. This choice can often be shaped,