Introduction to News

What is News?

  • new information mainly about recent events.
  • a broadcast or published report of news
  • information not previously known to someone
  • a person or thing considered interesting enough to be reported in the news
  • fake news
  • less information more entertaining
  • political about power and persuasion
  • profit about making money
  • inform, educate, entertain, profit and influence/persuade

Facts:

  • Newspapers are not PBS (like the BBC) they are commercial publications. Over three quarters (77.8%) of the British press is owned by a handful of billionaires. Over a quarter (27.3 per cent) the press is owned by Lord Rothermere and 24.9 per cent by Rupert Murdoch - between them these two men have over 50 per cent of the printed press.
  • Newspapers and their online publications (example of synergy / convergence) are not legally obliged to provide a un-bias public information service. There are ethical and moral codes of press conduct but the printed press is self regulatory industry.

Fake News


Cottingley Fairies - first photo that represents 'fake news'

Orson Welles War of the Worlds - 1938 on the eve of Halloween

Great White Shark off the coast of Cornwall - modern day fake news - local news

Beast of Bodmin - modern day fake news - local news

Houston Airport - flooding from Global Warming really a CGI image - fake news - international

Boris Johnson - is and isn's fake news - mislead people to do wrong Brexit vote - influence/ persuade - Boris had to explain himself in court

Muslim Christmas Lights - another fake news example from The Daily Mail

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