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From 10/15
How does all of what we talked about fromBagdikian relate to Adorno & Horkheimer
You only get this because I have a sinus infectionFWIW We can see some massive problems
The culture industry is the news industry
The culture industry is across everything
Media companies are owned by companies like GE
That restricts the power of what they can say
Separation of Church and State gets smaller andsmaller
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Bagdikian A&H
So if we think about what happens to these poorjournalists
Pseudoindividualism seems rife p. 151
Maybe its not even so duped (see Marquette polleditors knowingly doing this)
My old advisor, Geneva Overholser was that editorwho quit the Des Moines Register(and later becameDean of Annenbergs School of Communication atUSC). (Side note: for women in journalism, I cantthink of a better class act to follow.)
You can read her manifesto for journalism here
http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Communication%20and%20Journalism/OverholserG.aspxhttp://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/Downloads/Overholser/OnBehalfjune2008.pdfhttp://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/Downloads/Overholser/OnBehalfjune2008.pdfhttp://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Communication%20and%20Journalism/OverholserG.aspxhttp://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Communication%20and%20Journalism/OverholserG.aspx -
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Bagdikian A&H
Is the fact that journalists are revolting to
advertising sponsored news hope?
Or is advertising too crucial especially now?
In other words, is the American Dream of
journalism just a lie?
Are these journalists just donald duckingthemselves?
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McManus: Market-Driven Journalism
Where does A&H come in?
Public companies exist to make profits,
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[Creditors (e.g. BanksBondholders, etc.)]
Shareholders
= Newspaper
Public companies are publicly owned by
shareholders, who invest money in the company
for certain ownership rights (including the right
to control the company through voting and the
right to share in profits).
In addition to raising capital from equity
investors (shareholders), companies may obtain
financing from creditors (e.g., banks or
bondholders).
Public companies often conduct some or all of
their business through wholly-owned
subsidiaries.
The shareholders do not directly own or control
these subsidiaries, but since they own the parent
entity they do indirectly own/control the
subsidiaries. Creditors may loan money directly
to the public company, or they may lend money
to any one or more subsidiaries.
Though each subsidiary is required to have its
own BOD, practically speaking there will besignificant (or total) overlap with the BOD of the
parent company.
The BOD is responsible for managing the
company (though it typically delegates day-to-
day duties, e.g. to a publisher), but certain
actions by the BOD require approval from
shareholders (e.g., a large purchase or merger).
= Board of Directors (BOD)
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So what matters is the picture on p.
182
Relationship between media firm and news
firm
Norm of journalism v. norm of business
Key decisions occur at three stages: discovery,
selection, and reporting
All take into account $ or do they?
Constraints all the way down
Sources are constriaints two
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Take a look at the following
relationships
Investors and parent corp
Parent corp and firm
Media firm and news department Hire fire publisher, set budget, local newscasts
give local management a lot of control
Halo effect
Remember everyone watches local news
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What do you do?
Advertisers and media firm?
Whats the way out of this?
Are people being duped?
Are they being told the truth
Is there a truth?
Is it all just about consumption? Making us buy
more want more even through news???
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Takeaway
Its pretty complicated news is a command
of special interests that are external and
internal to the newsroom, and becomes a
commodity itself p. 189
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Downsizing the News: Cutbacks at the
Capitol
First some facts: Check out the decline in state
reporters at state capitols and also in DC of
federal agencies and across TOWN
Declines of coverage ofcongress
The San Diego Union-Tribune killed its DC Bureau
even after it won a Pulitzer for tracking down the
corruption of Rep. Duke Cunningham. Just a question Ive been pondering: was news
really always about traditional good news for us?
http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4721http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4877http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4904http://www.journalism.org/print/14682http://www.journalism.org/print/14682http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4904http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4877http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4721 -
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Kimball
Negative coverage leads to negative responses
about government, generally
TV helps set a national agenda, though I will
argue its newspapers that play part 1
Do you watch network evening news?
Are they all the same?
Serious consequences for Watchdogging
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What does Kimball have to say about
A&H
Think a little bit about what it means to havecontrol over the means of production at the levelof the firm
Think also about what it means that people learnfrom each other
Think also that most newscasts are the same
Think also that there is a need for reporting
Many conflicting ideas. Your choice is to argue foror against the overwhelming presence of A&H, orto see the influence of their argument in certainplaces and not others.
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The New York Times Lonely War
Dangers of War Reporting AND AMAZINGCHALLENGES
Can a newspaper really afford this?
You cant cover a story only when interest peaks,says Bill Keller, the papers executive editor. Youhave to walk the beat all the time. This is sointegral to what readers expect in The New York
Times that if we stopped covering the war in Iraqwe should just go out of business.
THE RAT DEN v. a lap pool
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Expat life.in a time of diminished
resources Today, neither CBS News nor Time magazine has a full-
time correspondent in Iraq. The heady days whenhundreds of journalists, diplomats, and NGO stafferswould drink and smoke and pair off by the pool of a
local hotel are gone for good. Making a social call tosomeone outside of your compound is now virtuallyimpossible; no one wants to risk his or her own life, orthat of a driver or guard, for the sake of a hookup. Atwisted piece of metal sits in the living room of the
main Timeshouse in Baghdad as a reminder of whatsat stake. Its part of the radiator of a cement truckdriven by a suicide bomber; it landed in the yardfollowing an attempt to destroy two nearby buildings.
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What I had seen in Iraq was a small band of
reporters from a shrinking number of outlets
doing remarkable work under increasingly
difficult conditions. What Id seen at homeeven among many of my colleagues and
friends and among some media executives
was an American audience that largely didntcare... Culture industry? Much?
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If you want to be good
Read more Seth Mnookin. Interesting fact: he
was at one point a serious heroin addict. Do
not do this part. But write like him.
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Now we get the NYT of Today
A publishers Mexican girlfriend detracts from
the public service mission?
Janet Robinson gone?
Stock decline (Public Company)
NYT troubles what does that mean for
reporting. So far?
The Sulzberger commitment to reporting???
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The NYT of Today
The Paywall. How many of you all legitimately have digitalsubscriptions???
In the era of Arthur Sulzberger Jr., when newspapers have flailed undernew digital realities, the New York Times Company has shrunkdramatically. Once it was a wide-ranging media empire of newspapers andTV stations and websites, and even a baseball team, that was worth
almost $7 billion; today its essentially two struggling newspapers and amuch-reduced web company, all worth less than $1 billion (forcomparison, consider that the Internet music company Pandora is valuedat almost $2 billion). Despite the shrinkage, the company has retainedessentially the same top-heavy management, which it has kept wellcompensated. Even though the paper froze executives pensions in 2009,
as it is threatening to do with union employees, the company created twoloopholes, called the Restoration Plan and the Supplemental ExecutiveSavings Plan, which allowed certain high-earning executives to take moneyout anyway. As a result, Janet Robinson received an additional lump-sumpayment of over half a million dollars upon exiting the Times.
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How does this fit into A&H
What does this say about high art v. low art(actually what do both articles say aboutthis?)
What does this say about the cultureindustrys movers and shakers?
What does this say about the power to create
and shape news. Is it any less? What does it say about whether it matters
who is in charge?
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A real life 30-Rock: NBC AND GE
During its Friday broadcast, NBC NightlyNews With Brian Williams had no time tomention that Americas largest corporation
had essentially avoided paying federal taxes in2010. Or its Saturday, Sunday or Mondaybroadcasts, either.
Did NBCs silence have anything to do with thefact that one of its parent companies is GeneralElectric?
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Dude, whom do we trust?
News organizations often wrestle with how
to report on their own mistakes and those of
their parent companies. ABC and Fox, for
example, have been chided by critics over theyears for glossing over unflattering news
about their parent companies, the Walt
Disney Co. and Rupert Murdochs News Corp.,respectively.
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Obviously, the only answer is.