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ASSIGNMENT
Semester 3 – Summer Drive 2013
M.A. Journalism and Mass Communication
Subject Name: News Critics
Subject Code: MJ0011
(Book ID: B0445)
4 credits (60 marks)
All questions carry 10 marks. Answers for 10 mark questions should not exceed more than 400 words.
Answer the following questions:
1- Write a detailed note on Walter Lippmann’s opinions on news (introduction – 2 marks). What did he observe in Public Opinion (8 points worth 1 mark each)[2+8 = 10 Marks]
Answer : Walter Lippmann was an American public intellectual, writer, reporter, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War; he coined the term stereotype in the modern psychological meaning as well.
Lippmann was a journalist, a media critic and an amateur philosopher who tried to reconcile the tensions between liberty and democracy in a complex
2- What does ‘going live’ in news mean? Explain in brief (within the word limit).[10 Marks]
Answer : ‘going live’ in news means a focus of public attention .
3- Discuss Ben Bagdikian’s views on the media.[10 Marks]
Answer : In The Media Monopoly, author Ben Bagdikian explores the way in which the media functionS. His particular area of interest is the way in which the media is controlled. His exploration details various forms of information dissemination, including television, radio and print; both newspapers and magazines. His goal is multifaceted: to explore the significance of the media to us, the consumers, and to look at how the
4- Write a long note on Noam Chomsky and his works.[10 Marks]
Answer : (Avram) Noam Chomsky is an eminent linguist and a radical political philosopher of international reputation. He was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA) where he grew up in a family of Ukrainian and Belarusian Jewish immigrants who had gone through New York before settling in Philadelphia.
5- Write a long note on Warren Breed.[10 Marks]
Answer : Warren Breed’s “Social Control in the Newsroom” (1955) is a classic and pioneering example of the scientific study of the news making process. Part of this study is reprinted in Moral Compass, pp. 112-120. The paper has also been widely reprinted.
Breed, a former journalist turned sociologist, addresses the question of how publishers, the chief executive officer of a newspaper, gets the journalists to follow “policy,” even though that policy is very seldom written down. Breed
6- What is the Financialization of News? Write a long note.[10 Marks]
Answer : Financialization is a term sometimes used in discussions of financial capitalism which developed over recent decades[when?], in which financial leverage tended to override capital (equity) and financial markets tended to dominate over the traditional industrial economy and agricultural economics.
Financialization is a term that describes an economic system or process that attempts to reduce all value that is exchanged (whether tangible, intangible, future or present promises, etc.) either into a financial instrument or a derivative
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