[1] THE LEVEL OF PROOF MUST BE HIGHER: providing a new level of proof will explain how that can happen. it means that everything discussed in the book- evidence, verification, sourcing, and other items that add to a story's completeness- is even more important and more challenging Show
[2] JOURNALISM MUST BE MORE TRANSPARENT: the press must become more transparent about how it verifies the news, so that the public can know why the press should be trusted and can develop their own process of verification. omniscient narrator- simply assuring audience- is now insufficient. press no longer only source of news so its authority must come from how it gathers and authenticates its facts [3] THE PRESS MUST DEVELOP OR ACCESS MORE EXPERTISE: press must gain more information from different sources. new technology increases ability to find more experts, more viewpoints, more data, more stories. For example, Public Insight Journalism. "crowdsourcing" ---> produces gripping personal stories as well as a broader array of expert opinion, which often results in unexpected new story possibilities. [4] THE NEWSROOM MUST BE REORGANIZED AND NEW SKILL SETS ADDED: journalism must be more than storytelling. Information must come in different forms- statistical, graphic, audio, visual. [5] THE EDITOR WILL BECOME MORE IMPORTANT, NOT LESS: editors must do more than simply edit narratives. They must understand which of the new tools on an expanding list should be used to communicate. They must curate the expanding dialogue with audiences as well as the material available throughout the Web. [6] THE DEFINITION OF NEWS MUST CHANGE: the news is more complex than people generally consider it. press must be far more conscious of what function each story or piece of content that is produced plays. press must ask, "how are people going to use this content?" "how will it help them?" "what is its value?" "what else can be done instead?" What are two barriers to the success of minor parties in the United States? a. Although minor parties have no problem getting the signatures they need, they must attract 25 percent of the votes in the general election to get public funding. b. There are variations in the ballot access requirements between states, and some states require a large number of signatures to get on the ballot. c. Public funding is not available to minor-party candidates, and it is difficult to get the large number of signatures required to get on the ballot. d. There are variations in ballot access requirements between states, and public funding is not available to minor-party candidates. a federal statute that requires public agencies to provide certain types of information requested by citizens passed in 1966 and signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The act requires the executive branch of the U.S. government to provide information requested by citizens and was intended to increase openness in the executive branch, which had been criticized for hiding information FOIA also identifies data that does not need to be disclosed, such as human resource and medical records, national defense records, and material provided by confidential sources, to name a few.91 Not all presidents have embraced this openness, however. President Ronald Reagan, in 1981, exempted the CIA and FBI from FOIA reques vote. Even if the crime rate is going down, for instance, citizens accustomed to reading stories about assault and other offenses still perceive crime to be an issue.128 Studies have also found that the media's portrayal of race is flawed, especially in coverage of crime and poverty. One study revealed that local news shows were more likely to show pictures of criminals when they were African American, so they overrepresented black people as perpetrators and white people as victims.129 A second study found a similar pattern in which Latino people were underrepresented as victims of crime and as police officers, while white people were overrepresented as both.130 Voters were thus more likely to assume that most criminals are black and most victims and police officers are white, even though the numbers do not support those assumptions. Network news similarly misrepresents the victims of poverty by using more images of black people than white people in its segments.
Viewers in a study were left believing African Americans were the majority of the unemployed and poor, rather than seeing the problem as one faced by many races.131 The misrepresentation of race is not limited to news coverage, however. A study of images printed in national magazines, like Time and Newsweek, found they also misrepresented race and poverty. The magazines were more likely to show images of young African Americans when discussing poverty and excluded the elderly and the young, as
well as white and Latino people, which is the true picture of poverty.132 What is it called when journalist follow one another in reporting rather than digging for?The Media Game: American Politics in the Television Age. New York: Macmillan. All these factors have likely led to the shallow press coverage we see today, sometimes dubbed pack journalism because journalists follow one another rather than digging for their own stories.
What occurs when a story focuses on isolated details or specifics rather than looking broadly at a whole issue?Episodic framing occurs when a story focuses on isolated details or specifics rather than looking broadly at a whole issue. Thematic framing takes a broad look at an issue and skips numbers or details. It looks at how the issue has changed over a long period of time and what has led to it.
What is soft news in media?Soft media can take the form of television programs, magazines or print articles. The communication from soft media sources has been referred to as soft news as a way of distinguishing it from serious journalism, called hard news. Soft news is defined as information that is primarily entertaining or personally useful.
What occurs when citizens use their personal recording devices and cell phones to capture events and post them on social media?Social media, like Facebook, also placed journalism in the hands of citizens: citizen journalism occurs when citizens use their personal recording devices and cell phones to capture events and post them on the Internet.
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