Ryan Gould - Journalism

  Reality Television constructs a sense of intimacy between its participants and viewer because it has an effect on their emotions. Different types of television genres attempt to bring out different emotions. A comedy show will attempt to make the audience happy and laugh so it is a technology of humour, whereas, reality television attempts to create a sense of relation between viewer and participant and is seen as a “technology of intimacy” (Kavka,2008, p.1). Reality Television is understood as a cultural form that gives us access to an emotional ‘real’ and a feeling of intimacy. The development of reality television and the invasiveness of it allows the audience to be a fly on the wall in order to connect with the participants. The more episodes that someone may watch, the bigger the connection they may feel between themselves and the people on the show because they feel as if they are getting to know their relatable personalities and make associations with what is going on with...

I am going to d issect what it means to be symbolically annihilated and discuss Gaye Tuchman’s reading ‘The symbolic annihilation of Women by the Mass Media’ and the way representation in the media has a big effect on different types of people such as Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic communities. To be symbolically Annihilated by the mass media means that a group of people are either being misrepresented or underrepresented in the media because of their race, sex, sexual orientation or social class. Firstly, I am going to the discuss the text written by Tuchman and what she meant by ‘The symbolic Annihilation of the Mass Media’. Tuchman believes that Women are depicted by the media as the homemaker or Mother and are defined by their relationship with men. Tuchman states that “No one considered the way Women experienced the World, instead they were seen as men’s silent un-opinionated Consorts.” (Tuchman,1978, p.4). This depicts that Women were not up to the same standard as Men when it...

  There are many ways in which the Military and Government control the news media during war as they both tend to share a common interest. “When media through their ownership have common interests with the ‘military-industrial complex’ it is doubtful whether they are capable of independent and critical war reporting” (Bagdikian, 2004: 156). Military and government control mean that when it comes to showing the public what really goes on during the war, they are reluctant to portray the truth because they do not want to cause panic amongst the people and their control means that whatever side they are fighting for is what is going to be reported on, not the opposition which can lead to a biased narrative.  When the news is constructing a reality, they follow certain news values in order to create a good news story. “The nature of the dominant journalism tends to be aligned systematically, in ways that are likely to be mutually constitutive, that are institutionally and discurs...

   There are numerous ways of how the news and journalism industry Is gendered as on countless occasions there have been many examples of women being marginalised or “symbolically annihilated” (Tuchman,1978, P.3) within the media. Both Men and Women have been placed on separate pedestals, where men tend to come out on top and present the hard-hitting noteworthy news stories, and Women may find the top jobs within news presenting and journalism hard to come by. Women do not just find it hard to make it to the top in the newsroom, there are particular areas of journalism such as sport or politics where the theme of male dominated news reporting is continued and women are only just now starting to become more recognised in the male sport industry. Although, having said this, they are still being discriminated against due to the public frowning upon women reporting on the male sport industry as they have a preconceived perception that they do not have as much knowledge of the spor...