COMM disc ***PRofessor Anthony ONLY***
Bigricker12
week_2_disc_student_responses.docxRobert:
1. A) Two of the main variables of news gathering effecting editors and reporters are time available before the news network air/publishes the story and the space allocated in the program to get the story to the audience. With the new age of technology and media, immediacy on presenting the story to the audience has become huge pressure on reporters and editors on gathering information. Also, the space available within the conduit that the story is presented effects how much of the story and what parts are presented to the audience.
2. B) Since the change of journalism following the 9/11 events that shook the world. News outlets now concentrate more on telling the story in more humanistic and personal way. And when you have to put emotion into presenting a story to capture your audience, your own personal values and biases will dictate on how that story comes across. In political personal bias is everywhere from as big as choosing not to report a story, down to blurring out the tee-shirt that supports a presidential candidate not favored by the network.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/01/bias-alert-hln-blurs-out-retired-officers-trump-2016-shirt.html
1. C) In 2004, a Washington staffer, Jessica Culter writes of her affairs juggling a sexual relationship with 6 men, one of which was Robert Steinbuch who was the general counsel to Senator DeWine on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Steinbuch filed a $20 million dollar lawsuit against her.
During December 2004 tsunami that hit Southeast Asia, bloggers were the able to provide video, photos, and news while also providing casualty lists and links to government aid sites.
Christopher:
Some variables about news-gathering that are beyond control of reporters and editors but affect what people read, see and hear include- timeliness, proximity, unusualness, prominence, impact, conflict, and human interest. For example, a reporter’s access to the scene of a newsworthy event usually depends on the type of property -- public, private, or "nonpublic" government property -- to which access is sought. Public property restrictions are generally limited to reasonable time, place and manner regulations, while private property owners have much more control over access.
One of the largest biases which hold journalist captives of their personal values in my opinion involves politics. According to a recent video on CSPAN, “Bias & Beyond: The New World of Political Journalism, Stephen Hayes spoke about political journalism and media bias. He discussed the proliferation of media outlets and the democratization of the media. Following his remarks, he responded to questions and comments from members of the audience”. https://www.c-span.org/video/?190157-1/bias-beyond-new-world-political-journalism.
It seems to me that now more than ever journalist concentrate more on spats and rumors between candidates as opposed to focusing on the candidate’s policies.
According to Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries: Blogging, blogging is problematic on a large scale when Military Blogs jeopardized overall mission security. “Blogs also were playing a unique role in America's military presence in Iraq. Unlike any other war in history, Web-connected soldiers were documenting and sharing stories, opinions, photos, and more with the world in near real time through military blogs. Also called milblogs, there were approximately 50 military blogs in mid-2004, according to the May 12, 2005 issue of USA Today. By mid-2005 this number had increased to 200, and observers anticipated that some 1,000 milblogs would be in existence by the year's end. One factor behind the growth of milblogs is concern among soldiers that traditional media do not tell the entire story of what is happening; milblogs give soldiers the power to share good news with the world.
Most soldier-authored milblogs are written anonymously, either on personal laptops or at Internet cafes the military has established at larger bases in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some soldiers have been reprimanded or demoted for potentially jeopardizing operational security, and some commanders have ordered soldiers to have their blogs reviewed before posting, but this is not believed to be a widespread problem."
