It’s not a challenging task to find a wide range of resources in a field like communications. There are many authoritative, trade and popular resources readily available to anyone looking just a few clicks of the keyboard away. The challenge at hand is finding resources that directly apply to the discipline that one is focusing on. I hope to manage communications for political groups or the government one day and when I started looking for resources, I found a plethora of authoritative resources for the field of communications that covered many different topics, but this was also the case for authoritative political science resources. What I had trouble finding were resources that applied to both public relations and political science. For …show more content…
Articles are written by various scholars and professionals in the public relations field and once approved by their peers, are published in this journal. Six comprehensive issues of the latest research and studies are published a year by a board of editors that are experts in the field. An article that was written by Kim Young titled “Understanding publics’ perception and behaviors in crisis communication: Effects of crisis news framing and publics’ acquisition, selection, and transmission of information in crisis situations” and published by Journal of Public Relations is the reason I choose this specific authoritative resource. The article is a study that demonstrates how people react to the way a certain event is portrayed by the news. The purpose of the study was “To better understand publics’ perception and communicative behaviors in crisis communication” (Young 35). The audience for this article is people in the public relations field, members of the news, and anyone that wants to know more about how news is manipulated to compel the public to think a certain way. Moving on to my second authoritative source, I choose a peer reviewed journal titled The International Journal of Press/Politics. As soon as I read the title of this journal I knew it would apply to my discipline without fault. This interdisciplinary
Viewers across the nation are affected by the social media causing stress on the subject by bombarding the public with media stories, rumors and “a sense of mass panic”. Victims have to relive that horrible moment because the media wants to
Within Joyce Nelson’s essay, “TV News: A Structure of Reassurance”, Nelson criticizes the TV news structure that perpetually disconnects current events from their historical background through comforting anchorpeople partnered with advanced technology to create a TV program that minimizes the important implications of current events. Though lacking the amount of information that a print news publication can maintain, the TV news can convey immediate information through technological advances of modern TV equipment to allow the medium to remain competitive. The façade of in-the-moment international information broadcasted directly to viewers enables anchorpeople to maintain the feeling of immediateness, keeping the viewers believing the program
James J. Braddock was a legend in his time. From getting kicked out of the rink during the depression to getting back on his feet in the end. When the depression hit, his boxing career hit a low. After losing 16 out of 22 matches during which he shattered his right hand, he decide to call it and joined the government relief line. He joined the relief line to support his wife and children. During this time he finds work on the docks for a few dollars and due to his shattered right hand he is forced to use his left hand.
The final video, “Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening”, was the most entertaining and provided the best demonstration of the use of rhetorical strategies in our daily news. We see commonplace activities being put in the news, and the use of certain words, objects or people to elicit a response or persuade the viewer to see the situation in a particular light. This final video showcases
Media has an increasing part in public life, provoking emotions and swaying opinions. The power of the media is played out using language which is specially designed to persuade; But it is through rhetoric; ethos, pathos and logos (especially logos and ethos) that it tries to earn some credibility. Webster’s meaning for ‘Rhetoric’ is the art of speaking or writing effectively. Considering this, the tools of rhetoric- ethos, pathos and logos can be seen in the media coverage surrounding the events of 9/11, the Vietnam War and the Beaconsfield Mine disaster. The media at the time of 9/11 swamped the masses and portrayed ethos, persuading the viewers of an American unity, that could not be crushed, no matter how evil the attack.
Now I realise it seems a bit hypocritical of me to attack the media’s representation of a news event when I myself am a part of the hype-generating circus we call mass media. However, the voice of my wise, high-school English teacher echoes in my subconscious that we should always be critical of the texts we consume and conscious of the
It being the leading source of news since the printing press. We put our faith in the media to report accurate facts unbiasedly. Between 1983 and now the media industry has consolidated from 50 individual companies to 6. That means that though the impression given is that there are a multitude of sources to attain information, the messages being communicated are all one in the same. The limitation of media sources cause a ripple effect of limited information, allowing these companies to control the public’s perception on
Media coverage of news events can be disseminated to the general public in any number of different ways and media biases often “reflects certain organizational and/or professional preferences or values” (Bennett 2011, 173). In fact, Lundman (2003) points out “that journalists assess the newsworthiness of homicides occurrences using the relative frequency of particular types of murders and how well specific murder occurrences mesh with stereotypical race and gender typifications (357).” In addition, Johnson (2012) felt that the real job of media was to “create a message that…grabs public attention (62).” In other words, can the media grab the public’s attention and hold it?
I frantically search through my pink and purple Janz Sport backpack while my father stands above me, the grinding of his teeth was able to be heard from three miles away. “I can’t find it”, I said. My mind was racing through ideas of how I can present an official document carefully assessing the most intricate aspects of my behavior, personality, and my intelligence. I was scouting for my fifth grade report. “I don’t think my teacher gave it to us, I don’t have it”, I said with the hopes that he would willingly accept my reason for not giving him my report card. Searching the premise of my bedroom, my father continues his investigation of the missing report card. “We will discuss this later”, he says as he exits the room.
The Huffington Post, popular or scholarly? Many have heard the name or read an article from the paper itself. With
In addition CNN ran a story on Vietnam that was proven inaccurate. The radio waves and television sets are flooded with sensationalized shows featuring beautiful young women and handsome men. The news watched today is sensationalized with one catastrophe after another. Is excitement what the market wants, or is the excitement expected because of a precedent set by the corporate owned media? Even in the reporting of sports, sensationalism rules. Channels like ESPN, owned by Disney , report homeruns, slam-dunks, and touchdowns with a dramatic twist. What effect does sensationalism have on the media¡¦s market? A survey done by the American Society of Newspaper Editors reports that ¡§spelling errors, bias, and sensationalism are corroding the credibility of newspapers.¡¨ The survey shows:
Media relations can be defined as one of the most significant areas of the practice of public relations. (Shaw&White, 2004) It enhances the practice of public relations by serving a systematic, strategized and mutually beneficial relationship between journalists and the public relations practitioners to build credibility, understanding and respect between the two parties. (Supa&Zoch, 2009) It is essential to cultivate a positive and healthy relationship between public relations practitioners and journalists because journalists tend to look at public relations practitioners in a negative way where they believe that they spin information to get free publicity which making it difficult for journalists to report legitimate news and at the same time, against the basic rules of news writing. (Fedler and DeLorme, 2002) Another study by Kiranjit and Halimahton (2006) also suggests that public relations practitioners and journalists are very much sceptical about each other’s role and the relationship between two of them is doubtful and uncertain. From the point of view of public relations practitioners, they complaint that journalists do not understand the role of public relations. On the other side, journalists tend to think that public relations
“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy” Most people in America believe that money is all you need to be happy. As in if they own that object they will be happy. This logic was also used in the roaring 20’s. Many americans got very wealthy at this time period, most of them used that money to party. One story in particular that demonstrates this era is The Great Gatsby, it shows what people did with all of their time back then. The author of this wonderful book is, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). A man named Verge stated this about Fitzgerald's book, The Great Gatsby, “ When it was published in 1925 it was a great critical success, but though it is his most brilliant book, it was a financial failure.” His book was not a very big hit back then but now it is a big read. In Fitzgerald's book he shares three messages which are, that money can't buy you everything, you can't leave your past behind, and that physical beauty is not everything.
The research for this article was conducted within a framework of Framing theory. The theory was first put forward by a Canadian-American sociologist Erving Goffman. Media framing, to put it bluntly, is a term that points to a presence of a certain bias in any media outlets’ output. All choices made in a newsroom collectively form the frame through which media decides to show the world to the audiences. Everything matters: Covering one event and ignoring another, covering one event more than the other, deciding what words to use to cover an event, what photographs or video clips to include, whom to give a voice, etc. At the same time, framing theory goes far beyond newsroom policies. Framing is not necessarily a delibirate choice. Journalists themselves look at the world through frames: their education, upbringing, gender, ethnical background, knowledge of the issue, and so on. Audience members apply their own frames as well, not just to media content, but to everything they hear and see.
Thousands of our nation's men and women were fighting for their country, yet the media limited the amount of information that they chose to pass on to the public. Each day the media is faced with the choice of making decisions of what news to pass on, when that news could make a significant difference in someone's life, or in the fate of our nation.