MC 2000 : MC NOTES TEST 2
Document Summary
Tv journalism is all about the happy and all about the sound bit. Newspapers and their social impact - history: the inverted pyramid is how the most important facts are presented first while the rest of the news story is on a different page toward the back of the newspaper. Penny press and mass circulation (benjamin day 1833). New york sun cost a penny a copy. This increase literacy and news focused on the middle class, not the elite. Advent of professional journalism - new york journal competed with the sun with sensational reporting (yellow journalism). Such as overstatement of facts, introduction of bias, emphasis on undue aspects of the situation. New york times with "just the facts" - modern journalism is emphasis on facts. Objectivity: is the attempt to report all sides of a story, through a coverage of a story. Interpretive journalism - emphasis on facts but makes greater attempt to analyze complex news events.
