%% Contemporary Issues in the Media %%
Identifying Key Terminology Related to the Media
Tags
Humanities
Cegep/2
Word count
124 words
Reading time
1 minute
- People are used to get entertainment for free
- Media as fourth wing of government
- Journalism
- Muckraking: early investigative journalism
- Gatekeeper: person who selects which news get reported
- Lying by omission
- Fortress journalism: idea that legacy media is more reliable
- Challenges:
- Media consolidation: centralization of media ownership to few privileged individuals
- Lack of diversity
- Skepticism of the media:
- Consolidated media might not represent public interest
- Iraq war
- Consolidated media might not represent public interest
- Solutions:
- Public media through government subsidy
- Link economy: value added to articles by using the Web's ability to link content
- Crowd sourcing
Ajitani Hifumi