JOUR 625 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Disinformation
3 Aug 2020
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The media has changed over the last 10 years, creating a lot of pressures for journalists. News has been formed into a global 24 hour and 7 days a week cable and online news environment. There is an increasing emphasis of the bottom line that have put pressure on the resources of news organizations to move from a profitable entity. It has become a lot more difficult to define who a journalist is and who isn"t a journalist. Journalists in the past has been seen by many professional practices and with associated norms. These have been tied to the environments in the media that journalists work in. Journalists were gatekeepers for the community and decided which information was worthy to know. Journalists reconstituted what would be filtered through the everyday world through institutionalized routines and structures. Offered society a current and reasoned reflection of the events, valued, and needs of.
