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New PDF release: News flash: journalism, infotainment, and the bottom-line

By Bonnie Anderson

ISBN-10: 0787972851

ISBN-13: 9780787972851

Whereas conversing heads debate the media’s alleged conservative or liberal bias, award-winning journalist Bonnie Anderson is familiar with that the matter with tv information isn’t concerning the Left as opposed to the Right-- it’s all concerning the funds. From unlawful hiring practices to ethnocentric insurance to political cheerleading, information Flash exposes how American broadcast conglomerates’ pursuit of the almighty buck continuously trumps the necessity for reasonable and target reporting. alongside how you can the bottomline, the proud culture of yank tv journalism has given option to an entertainment-driven that’s wasting credibility and audience via the day. As a person who has labored as either a published reporter and a community government, Anderson information how the networks were co-opted by way of bottom-line pondering that locations extra worth on a telegenic face than on noticeable reporting. community executives—the actual energy in broadcast journalism—are more and more utilizing strategies and techniques from the leisure undefined. They "cast" newshounds in accordance with their skill to "project credibility," price early life over education and adventure, and sometimes greenlight assurance provided that they are often guaranteed that it'll attract advertiser-friendly demographics.

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Unless professional behavior changes, it is not likely. KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL (INFOTAINING) STORY SELECTION Few people would deny that the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. was big news. Yes, he was a president’s son and a so-called “American prince” whose picture appeared often in the tabloids. But the comprehensive, nonstop, play-by-play coverage of the search and rescue operation after his plane crash, the recovery of the plane’s occupants, the church services, and the mourning—with live shots from every conceivable angle and site (including reaction from around the world), was more than just excessive.

This number has been increasing every year for nearly two decades. ) The crisis of confidence in journalism, particularly television news, applies to all levels. “It used to be that there was a different perception about network correspondents, that they were a cut above. You could rely on what was being reported on ABC, CBS, or NBC,” said Robert Wiener, who as executive producer for CNN in Baghdad during the Gulf War orchestrated the coverage that put CNN on the news map. “People now can no longer tell the difference between the networks, local (stations), cable.

Two years later, we saw what had once seemed unimaginable: Army doctors and medics examining a shaggy Saddam Hussein’s head for lice while providing him with the quality of medical care few if any of his prisoners ever received. These last examples are some of the shining moments of television journalism in recent times. But they are exceptions to the daily rule, the daily fare. To borrow a beer commercial’s line, television news today generally looks good, but it’s less filling. qxd 4/19/04 9:05 AM Page 6 6 News Flash across the television network news world: CNN, he said, “has become worldwide and skin-deep .

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