Key Points of Concepts: Thriller Opening

Key points of Concepts: Music Video

Ian Tomlinson

Narrative Question

Osama Bin Laden Dead: How Twitter Got There First

The first credible source that Bin Laden had been killed was from Keith Urbahn, the former Defense Secretary’s chief of staff, who tweeted around 10:25 pm US Eastern Time that he’d been “told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden” before US President Barack Obama had made the official presidential announcement.

The actual raid by US forces was unwittingly witnessed by an IT consultant living in Abbottabad, who unknowingly tweeted details of the US-led operation as it happened.

He wrote: "Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)."

Soon after, he reported the sound of an explosion, now known to have been US forces blowing up their damaged helicopter.

"A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S"

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent, BBC News On Twitter:

Already this is being described as another huge day for the micro-blogging service.

"Twitter just had its CNN moment", as one American website put it, comparing this event with the first Gulf War, where millions suddenly woke up to the fact that cable news was the place to observe a war unfold in real-time.

Such is the power of this network that it has become the key resource for older media trying to stay ahead of events.

A journalist who does not use Twitter is now like one who abjures the mobile phone.

Ian Tomlinson Update

Criminal proceedings open against the policeman (Pc Simon Harwood) who hit Tomlinson with a baton. Jurors ruled he acted illegally, recklessly and dangerously in shoving Ian Tomlinson to the ground. An inquest jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing, ruling that Harwood had used excessive and unreasonable force in hitting Tomlinson.

Google Maps Shows Where Osama Bin Laden Died

Google updates maps showing the Mansion of where Bin Laden died.

Google Maps Shows Where Osama Bin Laden Died [PICS]

Media, gender and identity: an introduction By David Gauntlett

The History of Google

History of Google on Prezi

British Soap and US TV Drama - Representations

British Soap and US TV Drama - Representations on Prezi

Ugly Betty - A Sterotype?

'Ugly Betty Season 1 Episode 5 - The Lyin', the Watch and the Wardrobe'

Betty's Appearance:

• Bushy eyebrows
• Braces
• Glasses
• Bad dress sense
• Someone hints to Betty that she is 'fat' - though she is not skinny
• 'Hairy' according to Mark
• Bleaches Moustache
  

*Overall impression: Quite nerdy looking, no obvious beauty*

Betty's Character:

• Poor social skills e.g. is seen overly excited at a fancy party with work colleagues - and is told not to stand too closely with Amanda who is with Betty
• Clumsy - bumps into man and spills his drink
• But then is affectionate and apologetic
  
• Naive - Likens too quickly from compliments by handsome men who may have an agenda
• Nice person, polite
• Learns from naivety - that she was conned by the handsome man who stole Mode's ideas
  
• Truthful and doesn't like lying - wants to confess being a leak
• Doesn't like secrets
• Easily influenced by Mark and Amanda and also calls Carol 'Fat Carol' like the others do
• Has strong morals

Is 'Ugly' Betty a stereotype?

Betty is definitely an outcast in her work place as she does not fit the 'never eating', skinny, well dressed, snobbish ideology of the work place (of that of the fashion industry). That within itself may be a stereotype of the fashion industry. Her image is 'Betty', somewhat of an 'Ugly Duckling' because of her bushy eyebrows, curvy figure, bad hair, glasses, bad clothes and braces - which she makes no conscious effort to hide; but Betty knows this, and does not attempt to change this image no matter what people directly tell her. She is always abused by Mark and Amanda about her appearance, but would a stereotype be someone who is 'ugly' trying to change themselves after what people say about them - perhaps, though Betty would go against this possible stereotype. Betty - as a professional- goes against the stereotype that a woman has to be domesticated, looking after the family, cooking and cleaning - Betty goes against this and shows that women can be successful in the world of work. Betty, however does seem like the stereotypical nerd in high school life, if she was in high school, she would be snubbed by the likes of the Amanda type personality. Betty, though is all for the moral value of "don't judge a book by its cover".

Notes on: Representations of Women on Television

The Portrayal of Women on Television - Helen Ingham

• Television usually represents and reinforce mainstream ideology of contemporary western culture: patriarchy
• Representations of women in television has changed over 20 years though ideology may have not changed much
• More women than men in world, so if television is more realistic, this should be reflected
• women are outnumbered by men in: - tv drama (3:1 or 4:1), cartoons (10:1) and soaps (7:3)
• Soaps most watched by females
• Men dominate production side of television so masculine ideology is norm
• Gunter divides stereotyping into sex role stereotyping and sex trait stereotyping
• Generally, women in tv have a life dominated by the family and personal relationships than men outside the home, as well as in it.
• Study by McNeil, about 75% of men are depicted as employed whereas less than 50& of women are (Gunter, 1986: 11)
• Advertising will make some kind of effect on those who watch
• Paul Trowler in his study of women in adverts, women are 7 x more likely to appear in hygiene products adverts than not to appear
• 75% of adverts using females were for cleaning products (kitchen/bathroom)
• 56% shown to be domestic housewives
• OXO ad - The mother is punished for leaving the family and going to work, coming home finding that all the dinner is eaten - her punishment
• Even when women are shown in position of power, it is still shown through a patriarchal ideology
• If women have power position it is portrayed as unnatural - they are going against the grain in this dominant ideology
• Women either portrayed as housewives or sex objects
• Men in domesticated roles portrayed as not usually using a kitchen
• The sex object, according to Kilbourne, is a "mannequin" who is there to be conventionally beautiful
• Tall and think, long legs, perfect hair, teeth and hair - underneath there is nothing
  
• Mannequin's beauty is superficial - advertises cosmetics, health products and anything that works to improve the appearance of the body
• The body part which needs to be improved will be predominantly shown
  
• Naturalness of a woman is very much part of the dominant ideology but does not apply to men
• Women as sex objects also used to provide sexual pleasure for men
• Women expected to be sexy and virginal, experienced and naive, seductive and chaste
• If they don't achieve this, they are made to feel guilty and ashamed
• Rita Freedman: Glamour mag surveyed its readers in 1984, 75% felt too heavy, 15% felt just right. Nearly half of those who were underweight reported feeling too fat and wanting to diet.
• College women: 40% felt overweight, while only 12% were actually too heavy (Dines, Humex, 1995: 346)
• Adverts create a climate in which sex sells and impossible body images are seen as acceptable
  
• It used to be that domestic women were presented as sexless, having lost sexual desire after having a family

Key Words in Essay Title: "The impact of the internet on the media is revolutionary. Discuss."

Key Words: The Impact of the Internet on the Media is Revolutionary. Discuss.

Magazine + Uses & Gratifications Theory

Heat Magazine:

• Filling time by reading
• Escaping from one's problems by reading about other people
• Finding models of behaviour - perhaps being influenced by these role models
• Gaining enjoyment
• Satisfying curiosity and general interest (gossip about celebrities featured)

Elle Magazine:

• Filling time
• Satisfying curiosity and general interest (about celebrities featured)
  
• Finding reinforcement for personal values (such as fashion trends)
• Getting intrinsic cultural or aesthetic enjoyment
• Gaining insight into one's self

Nuts Magazine:

• Sexual arousal
• Filling time
• Satisfying curiosity and general interest
• Relaxing

Web 3.0

The Evolution of Web 3.0

View more presentations from Marta Strickland.

'Breaking News': Internet Passes Newspapers for First Time; TV is Next

'More people get news online now than they do from newspapers.'

Representations (ideas and theorists)

Representation

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School girl Rebbeca Black goes viral

Rebbeca Black has become an internet sensation, with her song 'Friday' which has been high in Twitter's trending topic list for a couple of days. The cheesy lyrics have caused people to label the song as the 'worst song ever recorded'. Forbes stated that the notoriety of the song is another sign of the power of social media – specifically Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr, in this instance – in the ability to create "overnight sensations"

Trace the Development of Ripley and Sarah Connor

Trace the Development of Ripley and Sarah Connor on Prezi

The Development of the Bond Girl

The development of the Bond Girl on Prezi

Gender based Adverts (Women)

Women in Advertising on Prezi

How Sex Sells Within Advertising

This article on kenwooi.comshows examples of women being objectified on specific or whole body parts to sell a product. Some of the products don't even relate to the image shown to advertise it.

Article published: 28th February 2011

Charlie Sheen Sets New Guinness World Record for Twitter

Charlie Sheen Sets New Guinness World Record for Twitter

Sheen joined twitter on March 1st 2011, and acquired more than 60,000 followers in a matter of minutes...

Would he have acquired this many followers in the time that he did if he joined Twitter a year ago? Probably not, since then he wasn't in the public eye with the world watching him sink into oblivion, getting high on cocaine with the company of his two lovers - his wife and his twins' nanny.

*As of now, Charlie Sheen has 2,059,618 followers (and counting). (7/06/11)

Latest Charlie Sheen News- Living With Two Goddesses, Sheen High on Cocaine, Crazy or a Warlock?

by Steve Kovacs

The Kovacs Perspective




Charlie Sheen has been in trouble a number of times and admittedly, has abused drugs, indicating that he recently was addicted to cocaine. He now claims he has cured himself of his drug addiction. How? "I closed my eyes and made it so with the power of my mind. I have no interest in cocaine.” During an interview with NBC’s Today Show, he also said he has “tiger blood” and Adonis DNA. As for CBS, who recently dropped Sheen’s popular TV series "Two and a Half Men, Sheen says, "We're definitely at war." Why? "They're trying to destroy my family." He also told NBC that he is not worried because, “Defeat is not an option, they picked a fight with a warlock." Wow!


During the Today Show interview, he was asked if he should apologize to his CBS employers for all the trash talking Sheen has been bantering about recently. Sheen replied, "No, they owe me an apology, a public one. They should be licking my feet." He went on and said that his "tiger blood" and "Adonis DNA" are part of what make him "special" and above addiction.


I don’t know about Adonis DNA or tiger blood but Sheen is not an average guy, to say the least. First, he has more money than just about anyone and he lives in a mansion with two women he calls the goddesses. The goddesses are his girlfriends. One is an active porn star and the other is an attractive designer of some sort. How many of us know someone who lives in a mansion, with two goddesses to boot!


So, is Charlie Sheen high on drugs as many people think, or possibly a warlock as he calls himself? Or, could it be that he has bipolar disorder, which used to be called being manic-depressive, a description, which more clearly explains it— manic, and depressive swings. On the other hand, is Charlie just a cool guy that has all the sex many men dream about and a fun life, second to none? Many people are speculating.


To many a TV doctor's credit, most are not trying to diagnose Sheen without personally talking to him. That is admirable because they are professionals and just watching someone’s actions on television or listening to radio interviews is certainly not a proper way to diagnose anyone. Well, I have no such professional limitations and I can say what I feel. I am just a regular person and my take is my guess, nothing more.


To me, he scares me. I have written about Sheen before in articles where I worried for the safety of others around him. Now, I worry for his safety as well. In my view, he’s not high on drugs presently, however, he is a fast, almost out of control train coming up to an inevitable bend in the track. A bend where he won’t be able to handle the curve. He’ll crash then. I hope that he doesn’t take anyone with him on that crash, and I hope the crash doesn't end up with Sheen’s death, self inflicted or otherwise.

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Steve Kovacs is the author of Protect Yourself: The Simple Keys Women Need to be Safe and Secure. He is the host of the Internet Radio Talk Show, The Kovacs Perspective http://www.thekovacsperspective.com/ where he interviews experts in various fields, geared to help and inform. Steve also does current events and general audio commentary at http://www.regularguy.com/news/radio-talk-show-hosts/steve-kovacs/

Steve's background is in law enforcement, security, investigations and teaching. Contact Steve any time at:info@thekovacsperspective.com

Originally published on SearchWarp.com for Steve Kovacs Thursday, March 03, 2011

Article Source: Latest Charlie Sheen News- Living With Two Goddesses, Sheen High on Cocaine, Crazy or a Warlock?

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Women In Music Videos - A point made by bestactionheroines.com

Blogger Audrey M.Brown (bestactionheroines.com) makes a point about women portrayed in music videos and in film. She goes on to say how action heroines don't offend people by the way they dress such as Milla Jovovic in 'The Fifth Element'


and Angelina Jolie in 'The Tomb Raider',


but women in music videos and in Playboy can offend.


* The part about women in music videos is exactly half way down the page on the link

Strong female roles in contemporary TV dramas/sitcoms & Films

TV Dramas/Sitcoms:

1. Bionic Woman (2007)

Bionic Woman surrounds a woman who was saved from death after receiving experimental medical implants. She gains bionic powers and agrees to work with a quasi-governmental private organization who also carried out her surgery. The Bionic Woman was a spin off series from the 'Six Million Dollar Man'.

2. Private Practice (2007-present)

Medical Drama starring Kate Walsh, centred on a woman doctor (Dr. Addison Montgomery). From this advert, the main female character stands in the foreground proving the importance of her role within the cast. While the other cast sit and lounge in the background, Montgomery stands in a confident body position with her arm firmly on her hip proving her dominance.

3. Cashmere Mafia (2008)

An American drama series set in New York focusing on four successful female executives who have been friends since college turn to each other for guidance as they juggle their careers with their families.

4. Ugly Betty (2006- 2010)
The series surrounds around the character 'Betty Suarez', who is a Mexican American working as a personal assistant to the editor -in-chief of high fashion magazine, 'Mode'. 'Ugly' Betty is a unfashionable, curvy woman who sports bushy eyebrows and braces. This image of a woman is put in a (fashion) workplace surrounded with highly fashionable, flamboyant 'pretty' people. In the end of the series, Betty wins the heart of her boss Daniel who is known to be a womaniser.












Films:

6. Resident Evil
The horror/action film, based on the same titled video games, follows an amnesiac heroine Anne (Milla Jovovich) and a band of commandos as they attempt to contain the outbreak of the T-Virus at a secert underground facility. The film stars Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez, both known for their action roles in various other films including 'The Fifth Element' and 'Machete'. Jovovich has been dubbed the title by VH1 the "reigning queen of kick-butt". According to the blogger of bestactionheroines.com Jovovoic "appears in more action films than probably any other actress or character on my list at this blog. Whether you like any of them or not is beside the point. Jovovich consistently performs as an action heroine, in fact, you could easily call it her specialty".

7. Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 (2003)
Uma Thurman plays The Bride who is a mother and former member of an assassination group. Being a killer and being a woman is an extreme opposite to a mother stereotype. The film shows that there can be a 'vicious' side to motherhood, which may derive from the feeling of having your child taken away from you. bestactionheroines.com claims on the movie; "Mothers are often relegated to certain roles, even in today’s far more diverse films and television shows. They are typically secondary characters or women with stereotypical emotional problems who are clingy and unbalanced."










8. Salt (2010)
Angelina Jolie's role in Salt was originally a man's role. The role was offered to Tom Cruise who turned it down as he felt the role was too similar to his Mission Impossible role. Jolie has been a female heroine in her first action role in 'Tomb Raider', at a time "when sexy absolutely had to be a part of the equation in order to make bank at the box office". Though in Salt, Jolie's character "never seduced anyone for secrets. She never used her appearance or looks to get anything done and she also never had to take on any maternal roles over the course of the movie. She was just a spy. Not a sexy spy, not a Bond girl, just a spy."

Media Portrayal of Women

Female Stereotypes in the Media:

http://www.suite101.com/content/media-portrayal-of-women-a189870 -

Representations of women in advertising:

http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/your-life/big-issue-representations-of-women-in-advertising/v1

Notes on The History of Social Networking with Rory Cellan-Jones

• Wedding reception - modern twist:- The wedding, set up as a FaceBook event. Promoted via Twitter and FaceBook.
• Bride's family able to look at photos as they were unable to attend the event: all thanks to social media
• People take to social networking sites to share and announce births, jobs, exams (passed or failed) and news
• Computerised version of paper bulletin boards. People used terminals to post messages, others would search them (San Francisco)
• People were amazed at the word 'computer'...people used the terminals to find dates
• 1973 - first opened public access computer system - the door to cyberspace was opened for the first time
• Computer technology was changing fast - rapidly growing market for businessmen
• Personal computers began
• The Well - source of information, a cross between a telephone conversation and a letter...online message board, filled with topics (California)
• Larry Brilliant founded The Well - the Twitter before Twitter
• Godfather of Social Networking - Stuart Brand (editor of original hippy Bible)

Perceptions of Women in Media

The Sun article (10/2/2011)

This article shows a young girl who recently died after undergoing an illegal cosmetic surgery which would enhance the rear using injections and fillers. The reason behind the surgery was to improve the girl's chances to become a hip-hop star. The ShowBiz editor Gordon Smart of The Sun suggested that "It's a status thing for glamorous girls in hip- hop. And it looks like they will go to extreme lengths to get it. "

A related video which shows Sexual Violence and Objectification of Women in Music Videos

Although a direct link has not been proven between hip hop music video messages and women going to extremes to live up to the these expectations (of dressing provocatively, having 'big booty's' and breasts and being used as sexual objects), women and young girls can be influenced by these music videos and the artists, whose audience, may idolize.

Notes on usefull videos on representation

Notes on: Collective Identity - Stuart Hall on Representation and the Media

• Visual Representations
  
• Kind of cliche - our culture is saturated by the image
• A still is transimitted in a variety of media
• Late Modern Culture - advanced industrial society
• The saturating idiom of communication world wide
• Cultural studies - pays attention to centrology of representation
• Variety of different texts, visual texts transmitted by media
• Double meaning - To present, to image, to depict
• Representation - connote soemthing is there already, through media it is re-presented
• Represents a meaning that is already there - common idea
• Another understanding - e.g. political figures who represent
  
• Notion of images and depictions
• Representation is the way in which meaning is given to the things depicted

Notes on: Collective Identity: Women

• Advert about birth control - works the way a woman thinks
• The boxes represent a day of a week e.g. Monday a washing day, tuesdayis ironing day [stereotypical image of a "woman's job"]
• Beauty, image -> power...BUT short living and unfulfilling
• Advertising has increased from $20 bn a year (1979) to $180 bn a year (1999)
• Average American exposed to approx. 3000 per day, and will spend 3 years of his/her's life watching TV commercials
  
• Everyone in America feels personally exempt from influence from advertising
• Advertising is the foundation of mass media
• Used to sell value, image, concepts and the product
• Advertising tells us who we are and who we should be
• Advertising tells women the most important thing is how they look (and hasbeen telling them for 30 years)
• Surrounding us with images of ideal women, trying to make people reach this flawless image of a woman
• Computers retouch images of women and create idea women
• Gives people false hope that 'we can look like this' one day, we're just not trying hard enough
• Research clear that ideal image influences women's self-esteem
• Women's bodies turned into objects, creates a climate, creates violence against women
• Turning women into 'things' lead to violence and abuse
• Women of colour, dressed as animals e.g. animal prints - looking as if they are not fully human
• Women's bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising over and over again - one part of the body is used to sell a product - dehumanising
  
• Focus on breasts, American culture obsessed with breasts
• Women are told to increase breast size, advertising makes it look like women's breasts are not perfect if natural
  

Media Diary

News Corportation - What does Murdoch Own?

List of assets owned by News Corporation:

Film
20th Century Fox
Fox Studios (Australia, Los Angeles)
Fox Television Studios
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Twentieth Century Fox Television

Television
20th Century Fox Television
bTV
Foxtel (Australian cable and satellite TV provider)
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Television
STAR TV (Asian)
British Sky Broadcasting

Cable Assets
Big Ten Network (45%)
Fox Business Network
Fox College Sports
Fox Movie, News, Soccer Channels
FUEL TV (US Extreme sports channel)
FX Networks
National Geographic Channel (UK - 50%)
Speed Channel
LAPTV (Latin American)

Direct Broadcast Satellite Assets
BSkyB (UK 39.1%)
Sky Deutschland (39.96%)
Sky Italia
Sky Network Television (New Zealand - 43.65%)
Foxtel (Australia - 25%)
Star TV (India and China - 100%)
Tata Sky (India - 20%)

Internet
Fox Interactive Media -

• AmericanIdol.com
• AskMen.com
• Direct2Drive
• Fox.com
• GameSpy
• Hulu.com
• IGN
• kSolo
• Drownedinsound.com
• MySpace
• MyNetworktv.com
• NewRoo.com
• Strategicdatacorp.com
• Scout.com
• SpringWidgets
• WhatlfSports

Beliefnet
News Digital Meida
Slingshot Labs
Authonomy

Magazine and Inserts
Alpha
Australian Football Weekly, Golf Digest, Good Taste, Parents
Best of the Gold Coast Magazine
Big League
Chopper
Country Style
delicious (with ABC)
Gardening with Australia
GQ Australia
Inside Out
Lifesyle Pools + Outdoor Design
Live to Ride
MasterChef Magazine
Modern Boating, Fishing
News America Marketing
Overlander 4WD
SmartSource
Super Food Ideas
Tatto
Truck & Tralier Australia
Truckin' Life
Two Wheels, Scooter
Vogue Australia, Entertaining + Travel

Newspapers and Information Services
UK -

News International

• The Sun
• News of the World
• The Times
• Sunday Times
• thelondonpaper (free newspaper which closed in Sept 2009)

Australia -

News Limited
Australian State Newspapers including papers for National, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and Northern Territory
Communiry suburban newspapers including papers for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin

Papua New Guinea -
Papua New Guinea Post-Courier

Fiji -
The Fiji Times

International
Dow Jones & Company

• Consumer Media Group (which own The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Marketwatch, Far Eastern Economic Review and Financial News)
• Enterprise Media Group
• Local Media Group
• Strategic Alliances

Books
HarperCollins
HarperCollins India (40%)
Zondervan Publishing

Miscellaneous
National Rugby League (50%)
Ansett Australia (50%)
Fox Music
Jamba!
NDS Group (49%)

*The only other media industry which Murdoch does not have a major stake in, is the music industry, though his recent acquisition of MySpace may venture towards this.

News and Global Media

Why is the news interesting as a case study for global media?

News broadcasters have a global objective and news agenda which have their own cultural and political influences, such as Russia Today which would be state-biased. Fox News (and the Fox Network) and The Sun newspaper both owned by media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch, who is been accused of being too cosy with the people in Government. This can cause biases in the news broadcasting programmes as government influence controls what is being shown and hidden to the public. The news is a device which is meant to feed the world with global occurrences, though culture and politics in certain countries can cause restrictions, which would shield the public from stories which could cause scandal on the country or of the people in the 'inside'. What can stop these top secret stories from leaking out on the world wide web?

The Herald Scotland's headline on 29tg July 2010 reads:
"BBC news still showing bias in favour of English stories"

Story by Phil Miller, Arts Correspondent

According to the story - "Some BBC news items still do not make clear to which part of the UK they are referring, and are reported as if they apply to the whole of the UK when they only apply to England and Wales."

The BBC Trust member for Scotland ,told The Herald that he was annoyed by news reports that fail to mention different conditions or laws in Scotland.

In 2003, a widely-cited public opinion study conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, documents the correlation between the news sources and certain misconceptions about the Iraq war. The polls asked Americans whether they believed the statements about the war that were known to be false. They were also asked which was their primary news source (Fox News, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN or NPR). The study showed that higher numbers of Fox News watchers held certain misconceptions about the Iraq war.

CNN vs. Fox News

Is CNN more liberal than Fox News? The following link shows the two in comparison regarding their web sites, the content and focuses and their political leanings.

News Corp debate + Articles

Rough Transcript of Radio 4 debate on Rupert Murdoch

Should Rupert Murdoch News Corp take over the 61% of Sky that it doesn't already own? Does it matter that he would have more control over the news in this country?

Brendan O'Neil:

• Murdoch - very influential
• Conspiracy theory? He has politics in the palm of his hand
• The idea that someone behind the scenes if controlling political affairs and the public
• Anti-Murdoch mania - slightly unhinged chattering classed conspiracy theory
  

Prof. Steven Barnet:

• Political figures worried about the amount of power being concentrated on a single organisation being controlled by single person
• In a democracy - you have multiple leavers of influence and multiple layers of public opinion
  

Brendan O'Neil:

• Worried about Ofcom rather than Murdoch - it clamps down on programs, it censors material
• Murdoch bashing makes people blind
  
• The Guardian is obsessed with "getting one over on Murdoch" - causing police to investigate other journalists, possibly imprison News of the World journalists
  
• Supposedly liberal media demanding the state to punish journalists
  

Prof. Steven Barnet:

• What is appropriate in a democracy for a single organisation/single person to control
• News Corp. controls 37% of national newspaper circulation, if they took over BskyB could ultimately control the only news/radio operation

Should anybody have that much control over the news?

Brendan O'Neil:

• In favour of open media and freedom of speech
• Is worried about somebody having so much control over media
  

Even The Sun recognised its own power in determining the election?

Prof. Steven Barnet:

• Lance Price: Only 3 people that mattered in Tony Blair's cabinet -Gordon Brown, John Prescott and Rupert Murdoch - unelected, non-politician - though every decision had pass by Murdoch
  

Since then, the approach of Prime Ministers to Rupert Murdoch

Prof. Steven Barnet:

• 2nd person into 10 Downing St. after David Cameron was elected by the back door? - Rupert Murdoch
• They're convinced that Murdoch is important. Prime Ministers and Cabinet ministers pay more homage than they need to because they're convinced he can win or loose election
• The influence is real and the volume of ownership is real

Brendan O'Neil:

• All the reports of who has dinner with James Murdoch when Rupert Murdoch went to 10 Downing St.? - get a grip.

Both Prof. Steven Barnet and Brendan O'Neil seem to think Murdoch has political influence and that he shouldn't be given so much political power since he is not an elected member of parliament. Brendan O'Neil thinks one person should have so much control over the media. Prof. Steven Barnet believes the influence is real.


2 articles published on 27/1/2011 -

The Guardian

The Independent

Both relate to the phone hacking scandal, where News of the World reporters tapped the phones of politicians and celebrities then printed the conversations.

Convergence Culture

Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins on Prezi

Two Step Flow and the News

Two Step Flow and the News on Prezi