Media Blog 1 - Mr Bush

‘Simply not fit for purpose’: Labour vows to scrap academies and free schools  https://inews.co.uk/news/education/simply-not-fit-for-purpose-labour-vows-to-scrap-academies-and-free-schools/ 24.09.18 The labour party wants to scrap the the free schools programme and academisation as they believe it gives too much power to the head teachers of schools. It's a major shift from Tony Blair's administration.  This is an example of hard news which would appeal mainly to audiences such as parent's and school teachers.  It gives the audience an insight of their local schools along with their community. This reflects the value of a newspaper to bring real and relevant information to communities. Kim Kardashian exhibits her curves in a busty pearlescent bodysuit as she parties with Kourtney at Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Rose Bowl concert... after putting feud with singer behind her https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6200717/Kim-Kardashian-parties-Ko...

1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? Shirky gives an example of how the catholic church was exposed for it's wrong doings around child molestation. He argues that without it these sort of situations wouldn't be exposed and the public eye would never see. 2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generators for newspapers (e.g. jobs, personal ads etc.)? It's not a good relationship as the advertisers tend to overpay for a service that may not be worthwhile, but they're forced into due to there not being any other alternatives.  3) Shirky talks about the 'unbundling of content'. This means people are reading newspapers in a different way. How does he suggest audiences are consuming news stories in the digital age? Shirky suggests that people consume the news in bulks n...

1) What has happened to print media in the last 30 years? Print media has been on a steady decline due to television being another easily accessible source of media, then further enhanced by the internet. 2) Why is the  Independent  newspaper such a good case study for the decline in print media? Because it died shortly after it began having unorthodox and campaigning front pages, and before this, it was non-biased. 3) What was the  Independent  newspaper famous for? Because it offered non-biased and challenging headlines for the readers. 4) What did the then-owner of the  Independent , Evgeny Lebedev, say about the newspaper's digital-only future? “The newspaper industry is changing, and that change is being driven by readers. They’re showing us that the future is  digital. This decision preserves the Independent brand and allows us to continue to invest in the high quality editorial content that is attracting more and more readers to our onl...

1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry? It can be argued that it has as a lot of people will go to google for their information, but google could potentially redirect people to newspaper websites therefore actually helping out the newspaper. 2) Find a statistic from the article that illustrates the decline of traditional news media. " In a similar way, Google critics note how much advertising money has disappeared from the newspaper business over the past decade or so — more than $40 billion, or  about 60 percent of the ad revenue  the industry generated at its peak in 2000, according to figures from the Newspaper Association of America" 3) Looking at the graph featured in the article, what period has seen the steepest decline in newspaper advertising revenue?  Past the year 2000 steepest dip began, it was similar to the dip in the 1990's but after about 2005 there was a complete decline in newspaper. 4) Do you personally ...

No online news sources are entirely trustworthy Many online news sources use 'click-bait' as a way to attract people towards their articles. Often these 'click-bait' titles can be very misinformed and misleading to have people believe in false information. Many news sources (even ones considered to be more trustworthy) will do this especially with smaller stories that don't tend to make the front page. Other times you'd find articles made by completely random people not associated to any news outlet with completely misleading titles that sound completely outrageous and not one bit true, simply to get people to click on the article. This way they can make some money and end up continuing to make these fake articles.  Often these fake articles will include famous celebrities names' in them to attract people over to the article and make up crazy stories about them leaving people often shocked. These articles tend to get spammed across social medias such ...