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    Introduction - What I intend to write about In this report, I will be assessing the British Broadcasting Corporation 's decision to broadcast Jerry Springer: The Opera back on 8th January 2005. In order to judge the decision, I will be looking at the reasons why the BBC made the decision to air it in 2005. I will be comparing the number of people who complained to the BBC to the total amount of people who watched the broadcast using viewing figures and charts. In addition, I will also look at the

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    influential upon the period of time immediately after. Media in the 1920-30s and its relevance to the years that followed, focusing on the western world. Through the journalism and writing movements during the era, new technology was exposed to the public and impacted events in the years that followed. The term technology can also apply to machinery, medicine and weaponry; however, none of them corresponded with the changes to media in the 1920s and 1930s. The evolvement of media and technology in

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    We 're all Australians, regardless of our ethnic background, political and religious beliefs (NSW Department of Education, 2015). Neville Bonner and Mandawuy Yunupingu are known for being resilient Indigenous Australian leaders, paving the way for the improvement in quality of life for generations of Indigenous Australians, and becoming ‘firsts’ in their respective fields (National Portrait Gallery, 2016). Bonner was the first Indigenous member of Australian Federal Parliament, representing Queensland

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    protected from their damage. Similarly, the American public desires to view violent programs at the risk of adapting induced aggressive behaviors. Because the networks refuse to act as a "mother," and to limit the amount of violence shown on television, there are no restrictions to prevent television's violent candy from rotting away at the teeth of society. Harry Skornia claims that "it is naive and romantic to expect a corporation to have either a heart of a soul in the struggle

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    Public relations share qualities with advertising, marketing, journalism, and more. There are also a lot of skills needed in this field. The article mentioned that skills like problem solving, writing, negotiating, creativity, and much more are all important in public relations. The work process followed by public relations is similar to the steps in building a successful and effective health promotion campaigns as well. The processes of promoting and forming health campaigns involve four stages

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    donate a fair amount of money towards the party they choose will affect the views and decisions of politics and influences them, as these donors will want their voices to be heard. But some individuals like to keep their donations are secret from the public and are able to donate a certain amount and split that up into smaller donations and give it to parties. According to ABC News (2017), ‘‘We don't know the source of 49 percent of the money received by our major parties last financial year. That means

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    Section 1: Introduction Google Inc v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission [2013] HCA 1 (Google) refers to the law of misleading and deceptive conductive conduct, both on the service provider angle and content provider angle. This analysis will firstly identify relevant and major facts and issues, then corresponding rationes. Thirdly, evaluation of the decision made by High Court, that whether Google was involved in misleading and deceptive conduct, will be conducted. Finally, as a conclusion

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    does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company 's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately-(Google). Private companies are very similar to independent companies; the only real difference is that private companies can choose their shareholders. Private companies don’t need to meet the strict exchange commission requirements that public companies have to, like having to give a certain percentage of their

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    the public sphere is structured across the world. In their products, in their professional practices and cultures, in their systems of relationships with other political and social institutions, media systems across the world are becoming increasingly alike. Political systems, meanwile, are becoming increasingly similar in the patterns of communication they incorporate. We will explore this trend toward global homogenization of media systems and the public sphere

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    Late 1950s: redefining public service In response to the rise of television and the competition from commercial broadcasting, BBC urged to an intellectual shift in the understanding of its role and the purpose of public service. It had to reinvent itself in order to maintain an independent service, and protect it from the political and commercial pressure. Sir Ian Jacob, the Director-General from 1952 to 1960 almost outlined every notable step of the BBC’s reinvention in the next two decades. Firstly

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