Week Five: Communication Theories for Diversity and Intercultural Communication

Individual

Television News Program Analysis Assignment

*APA format

Watch television news coverage of the same story on three different TV networks to address the following three questions. Write an analysis of your findings in a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper. Include how the three different forms of coverage of the same news story are portrayed and how the segments are framed with regard to presentation and bias. Cite at least two peer-reviewed sources other than your textbook. See week 4 for an explanation of a peer-reviewed source.

·         What are the points of view of the segments? Are they objective or subjective? How do they demonstrate that point of view? What was included that should not have been? What was omitted? (Answer with approximately 700 words.)

·         How are various social groups within the news segments represented? Answer with approximately 350 words.

·         Are these news segments taken at face value or are they sensationalized for entertainment? How do these news segments affect your personal values? Why or why not? (Answer with approximately 700 words.)

Note to Faculty. The previous assignment has been identified as a student work sample for the university’s Programmatic Assessment. Completed student assignments may be periodically sampled for program analysis purposes. In order to maintain the integrity of the data collected, the content of this assignment is not to be changed at any point (content or process) during the development of the final work product.

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