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.
You certainly have something interesting here. Good work.
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