Ownership, ideology and Bias (marxist)
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- Ownership, ideology and Bias
- Marxist Views of news selection
- They believe that media owners manipulate the content in the media
- Which discourages alternative points of view
- They are critical of the idea that truth-telling is the primary function of journalism
- They will report on anything that supports the dominant ideology
- They believe media owners/ companies use 3 ways of selecting news
- Agenda Setting
- Media companies construct the news to tell us about certain subjects e.g the bad people in the riots
- They don't make them think about the reason why this occurred
- To protect the ruling class
- They don't make them think about the reason why this occurred
- Media companies construct the news to tell us about certain subjects e.g the bad people in the riots
- Gatekeeping
- They have the power to refuse some issues such as industrial injured and disease
- This will cause public concern
- The gatekeeper to protect themselves in society
- They have the power to refuse some issues such as industrial injured and disease
- Norm Setting
- Media emphasis conformity to social norms
- They isolate those that don't conform through 'encouraging conformist behaviour
- and discouraging non-conformist behaviour
- Media emphasis conformity to social norms
- Agenda Setting
- They believe that media owners manipulate the content in the media
- The media is used to protect the dominate ideology and maintain capitalism
- McChesney
- Compliant editors who value their job know what the owners will want/ not want reported
- Herman & chomsky
- News agencies are money, profit seekers funded by advertisers to which the shape and control the advertising
- Therefore the propaganda they use promotes the virtues of capitalism
- News agencies are money, profit seekers funded by advertisers to which the shape and control the advertising
- Bagdikian
- Capitalist values permeate the news
- Businesses are covered a lot and uncritically, where as the gap between rich an poor is not covered
- Capitalist values permeate the news
- Edward & Cromwell
- As the media is a propaganda tool for capitalism, corporate crimes or poor human rights are under reported
- McChesney
- Hierarchy of Credibility
- Hall
- The news supports capitalism because those in powerful positions have more credibility that the less powerful
- GUMG
- Journalist and editors are from the middle class culture
- Therefore because of their social background it makes them more likely to be presented and the product of what news is gathered/ reported
- GUMG
- The news supports capitalism because those in powerful positions have more credibility that the less powerful
- Positions such as journalist, police, and business leader are PRIMARY DEFINERS
- They have better access to media institutions
- Compared to those of pressure groups, trade unionist or ordinary people
- They have better access to media institutions
- Mannning
- Those in less powerful groups have to tone down anything extreme in the message of fit to be heard by the media
- Hall
- Circuit of Communication
- GUMG
- The production, content and reception of news are constantly affecting each other
- They identified 4 groups who participate in the communication process
- Social and political institutions
- Businesses, government, lobbyist and the PR industry have great influence on the supply of information that becomes news
- The media
- They tend to priotise certain types of issues when broadcasting
- Commercial forces drive media content leading to reality T.V and live reports
- The Public
- The bring varied degrees of knowledge to their understand of reported events
- As well as different cultural values and interest
- The bring varied degrees of knowledge to their understand of reported events
- Government
- official criticism od news output brought to bear on news reporting
- Edward snowden criticised by state as disloyal
- official criticism od news output brought to bear on news reporting
- Social and political institutions
- GUMG
- Critcms
- Schlesinger
- The media does not always act in the interests of the powerful
- They are carful what they say to news because media can shape public concern
- The media does not always act in the interests of the powerful
- Capitalist propaganda is undermined by the idea that their is competition to get large publics to get large profits
- Schlesinger
- Marxist Views of news selection
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