COM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Taste Media, Ageism, Monica Lewinsky
4 Dec 2020
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When journalists are personally interested in the story, how objective can they. So good morning america reported from disney world for the whole week for it"s 25 year anniversary. Abc didn"t report about a story of disneyland employees being. Hidden biases / conflict of interests pedophiles. Reporter writes a book about what they"re covering. Media given money/gifts in exchange for favorable coverage. Ex: radio programmers invited to exotic places to play certain music. Ex: radio station takes artists off the playlist if they don"t play at almost. Ex-ageism: old people are never portrayed as competent/sexy. Ex-jobsim: cops portrayed as always firing guns/chasing bad guy. Ex-racism: many black sitcoms, few black dramas. Disney portrayed native americans bad in peter pan. Ex: 20/20 gave monica lewinski rights to footage from her interview. Lie, exaggerate, etc to make the story better. 5 ways a story can be reported incorrectly. Failure to tell audience where info is coming from.
