...Evaluating Media for Credibility Myranda Anderson Critical Thinking CRT/205 December 7, 2012 Amanda Hawkins Evaluating Media for Credibility The two channels I chose to watch were CNN and MSNBC. On CNN I watched “New Day” broadcasted on December 13, 2013 at 7am. On MSNBC I watched “Morning Joe” broadcasted on December 13, 2013 at 8am. The news program I felt was the most credible was CNN. First, CNN allowed more broadcast time for their segments compared to MSNBC. CNN’s broadcasts seemed more detailed than MSNBC’S broadcasts which gave me a better insight into the story line. I compared three different stories between the two news channels. I say the stories listed below were credible even though I did not agree with some of the words used by the news reporters. For instance, the story on CNN about the laser lights, the news reporter used the word “stupid” several times. He should have chosen a better word to use or should have just omitted the word entirely. The story about Ethan Couch the news reporter used words such as “slap on the wrist”, “money influence”, and “cushy, I don’t care family”. The...
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...Evaluating Media for Credibility Jose Fill University of Phoenix Critical Thinking CRT/205 Jill Rossi August 12, 2012 Evaluating Media for Credibility On August 12, 2012 I watched the CNN news broadcast for What’s next for Mars? Searching for Alien Life on Mars. (CNN [CNN], 2012, p. 1) CNN interviewed Author Lawrence Krauss about what the next steps will be for the rover Curiosity on mars. Lawrence Krauss discussed the different pictures taken from mars so far and the next logical step from here is to either discover past life on mars or even possibly life on mars now. Lawrence Krauss thinks we are cousins of mars and we could actually be Martians. On August 11, 2012 Lex18.com aired the article NASA’s mega rover landed on mars. What’s next? ("Lex18.com," 2012, p. 1) This article only covered on paragraph on what’s next for mars. In that paragraph it states “that the Curiosity rover is on a quest to learn whether the Martian environment could have been favorable for microbial life”.("Lex18.com," 2012, para. 1) The rest of the article just goes on about how and when then Curiosity rover landed. I feel that the CNN news video was more credible because it went into more detail on what the real next step mars will be. The other article wasn’t a video and really didn’t state anything special about the issue. I feel this news headliner was misleading and bare. Plus I couldn’t even find who wrote about it. CNN actually had a credible source, Author Lawrence Krauss. I found...
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...Evaluating Media Coverage My first online video story was on CNN and it covered the “Lockerbie Bomber Dies in Tripoli”. The length of this video was around 3:22 and I found this story playing on people’s emotions. What it showed (which was terrible) was a man convicted of bombing a airline flight back in 1988(Pan Am, flight 103), which killed all 270 people on board. The Lockerbie bomber was given 27 years but only served about eight years, because of prostate cancer. They interviewed the passengers family’s and they expressed how they thought about his early release. This was a good way to get an emotional response in the audience/public. However, they did bring up some interesting points like the fact that Libya threatened Britain in a statement that if the bomber died in a Scottish jail, there would be dire consequences. Of course, when asked about this, this was denied. People in Scotland were interviewed and many thought that he was being used as a “scapegoat” so to speak. Even the possibility that he may have even been a Libyan Intelligence Agent was mentioned but that was never proven, even in the trial. My second online news video was with Fox News about the continuing story about baby Lisa and the newest updates. It had the parents and their attorney at the news station being interviewed, as well as flash backs with the same reporter from the beginning. This interview lasted 10:27 which is quite a bit longer then the first video but then again, we are talking about...
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...Evaluating Media for Credibility Barbara Royal CRT 205 August 2, 2012 Catherine Crowfoot Evaluating Media for Credibility The two television stations I choose to watch are CSPAN and CNN. On CNN the show was called Fareed Zakaria, Fareeds take. Fareed was talking about Africa a lot where they stand, and how they compared to China. To me Fareed was placing his option into everything he talked about. He said that he saw Africa growing fast and they would soon become a middle class country. After he talked about Africa he introduced “The most powerful man in America” no not the president it was Grover Norquist. Grover is trying to pass the GOP pledge to never raise taxes. Grover said “Thousands of people lobby for MORE spending. There are only a handful of groups that fight for LESS.” In my eyes that is not creditable and it seems it is Grover’s opinion. There are no statics based on what he said. This man Grover is trying to pass a no more raising taxes bill which will be great for the Americans. Unfortually he has been trying to pass this for years. When I watched this CNN station on Sunday September 2, 2012 from 1 pm till 2pm Fareed didn’t spend but maybe 10 mins on the Africa issues but he did stick to talking with Grover for the remainder of the show. After CNN I watched CSPAN they were discussing Past Democratic Convention Speeches. When I started watching they just started with Robert F. Kennedy speech, when I started watching at 12:30pm. Robert Kennedy...
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...Evaluating the Media for Credibility CRT 205 July 3, 2012 LaToya Gilbert Evaluating the Media for Credibility I watched the Fox News with Shepard Smith on channel 360 at 6:00pm. The show touched on several different stories that are happening throughout the world. Most of the stories that were mentioned received about at least two to three minutes of air time the first thirty minutes of the news broadcast. The second half of the hour that was referred to as “the bottom half of the hour” by Shepard Smith was said to contain the top stories. The stories that were talked about in this portion of the show had about at least 5 minutes of air time. The majority of the stories that were given air time on the show were showing the negative issues to topics that had happened. I believe that Shepard Smith did a great job providing the top stories to his audience with enough information facts and examples to make the stories and the issues believable. The current drought status, botched jewelry store robbery, tropical storm and drunk driver were briefly mentioned. The Olympics is a huge story at this point in time. They talked about Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte and the competition they have going against each other. By mentioning this they have made it more enticing and people will want to watch to see the outcome. They focus should be on beating the other team but the show is helping sell the story by focusing on their individual battle going on between themselves. Another...
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...CRT/205 Evaluating Media for Creditability The news broadcast that I watched was local channels. Channel 7 and Channel 2, they are really the only channels that I watch. The times of the broadcast were both 11:00pm news on Friday July7th 2012. I recorded the one channel while I watched the other. I decided on local news because I knew that these would be more similar then the national broadcasts because they have such a wide range of things to report on, where the local is just in your area so the stories should be similar. The news channel that I felt was more credible was channel 2. The reason why I think that channel two news was more credible is because they were more through with their reports on each story and they always had witness either involved or around to put in their thoughts or insight. I think that they are more rounded when it comes to reporting on a story. I think that this is funny that I feel this way because I favor channel 7 personally, I always watch channel 7 and no other channel so I am a little shocked with my own findings. I can tell that they are all about getting as much information out about something as quickly as possible. Each segment was short but supplied a lot of information and like I said they were always on site, so where ever the story was they were reporting from there. Channel 7 news reports were just pictures and the regular reporters sitting at a desk chatting it up, although I do enjoy listening to their friendly banter...
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...1. What communication type avoids conflict and focuses on facts and details rather than the big picture? They may be perceived by others as unemotional and nonchalant. • Argumentatives • Sympathetics • Systematics • Directs 2. A criticism of social media is that it • is only available to the media savvy. • contributes to the decline in writing and language skills. • leads to separation of the haves and have-nots. • leads to information overload 3. In Korean culture, a business deal is dependent on contractual information as well as how the parties perceive each other’s values and ethics. According to Edmund Hall, this behavior exhibits the theory of • proxemics • low-context cultures • Ethno-centricism • high-context cultures 4. Your supervisor sends you an e-mail requesting an article for the employee newsletter about company loyalty. You write the article featuring customers who are brand loyal. Later, your supervisor criticizes you for not writing about the topic that he requested. After a face-to-face meeting, you realize that he wanted you to write about employee loyalty. This is an example of what type of noise? • Unwanted • External • Semantic • Internal Want more details? Download now COM 537 Final Exam 5. The head of the holiday party committee at your office is trying to set a location for the event. The committee chairperson announces three choices for members to vote on. When Erin hears that the Boar’s Tavern is one of the choices, her...
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...Essay 1 – First Draft New Media is Shaping Our Lives In the contemporary world, the importance of new media in people’s lives can never be dısregarded. Everybody should realize that new media has been affecting today’s world. This is mainly because; new media types help people at various issues. However, some people believe that new media is not preferable and ıt has a lot of drawback, some others believe that new media is useful and preferable. Even ıf mostly argue that. New media is not beneficial for individuals; in fact; new media is fundamental for today’s human-beings. In terms of education, business and socialization. The most prominent benefit of new media is education. This is because; todays chıldren benefit from new media types. Thanks to new media such as the ınternet, chıldren who use this kind of facilities might learn more effectively. Therefore, lecturers tend to educate chıldren with the help of new media. In addition, children need to learn new media types since since ıf they want to be successful in today’s world, children have to be knowledgeable about new media. They have to know, how to use computer systems or being knowledgeable about new technological devices. In addition, ıt is significant for university students. This is mainly because, a score of university prefer to use new media types. For this reason some of the universities disturbing laptops and tablets. Thanks...
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...I survived, and after 24 hours I am not at all ashamed to review my results. Everywhere I go, media surrounds me; at home, school and most definitely at my workplace. I spent a day this past weekend in a state of isolation. It was difficult to ignore all facets of media, and find other activities to substitute them. I felt alone, bored, out of the loop, and tired. My dependence on media is strong, and I felt as if there were a piece of myself missing. To be more specific, the use of media technology is one aspect that ties my family together. We rely on constant communication for safety purposes. My parents, siblings, and I are on opposite schedules, so it is very important to make sure we keep in contact and update one another. What I missed the most was having my iPhone in hand. I really missed listening to a voicemail from my mom telling me to have a great day, or receiving a text message every twenty minutes from my sister, blabbing on about something cute our cat just did. I use media not only for communication with family members, but also as a hobby of mine. One of my favorite past-times is working with media technology to create works of art. I focus a lot of my attention to all different aspects of media communication and apply it with my artistic ability to put together videos. My main ideas develop from the local news stations, movies, and magazines. The media plays a...
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...Communication is an act of conveying information from several forms of exchange, such as, speech, message, visuals, writing, signals, and behavior. This form of exchange can be between two or more individuals. When communicating with someone there are several important steps to take when you are needing to succeed in a task. Such as a disaster or a form of a crisis, proper communication is critical in the situation. Once a crisis arise in your community pertaining contaminated water there are vital steps to take to address within your organization and out side of the organization. Working in a regional emergency management office having a plan before anything happens is essential in the work place. By anticipating the crisis will prepare you for a possible situation and place you ahead of miscommunication. Once the crisis does arise there are steps to proceed with. These steps will assist with active and effective communication to inform and give instructions. In this situation a step to take within and outside of your organization is to identify your crisis communication team. The team should consist of the CEO, Vice President, safety officer, organization lawyer and chief of public communication of the organization. The senior manager of the division in charge of the involved area should be included also. The individuals assigned to this team should be able to identify as to what actions should be taken and be key to the situation. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control...
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...technology and electronic media, which could further amplify the voice around the globe with just a tap on the screen, what wonders it can fulfill if handled or regulated rightly to spread the information to educate people and how much hazard and disaster it can create if handled wrongfully to spread the misinformation to manipulate groups of people and although regions to accomplish any personal goal at the dispense of majority of population. State of Pakistan has a turbulent history of the freedom of press since its birth as many dictators with the blend of some rich masters have ruled possessing personals objectives. Before the rapid expansion of electronic media there were few sources of information like print media and a state owned channel “PTV” which had always been exploited and used for setting personal political agendas to highlight the importance of issues which were only important for few individuals. September 11 was an important episode of our history which exposed our importance of position in the international arena. That position made the then military ruler Pervaiz Musharraf a key role player. He abruptly steered state’s policies toward unprecedented Islamic terrorism and war on terror along with the image building of Pakistan by some liberal measures in account of women rights, minority rights and freedom of expression. However those measures had outweighed by some irregular restrictions in other areas. Expansive explosion of the mass media after 9/11 in Pakistan...
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...Communications Coordinator As the Communications Coordinator for the Cobbs National Drug Manufacturer (CNDM) there is rising concern around recent events from the media exposure on the adverse effects one of our nationally advertised medications has had on the Chief-of-Police. According to Athena du Pre, PhD, “Lack of communication can lead to duplicated efforts, costly (and sometimes life-threatening) delays, frustration, and wasted time” (Du Pre, 2005, p. 289) and our goal is to maintain open communication. Today’s meeting will help identify several ways to deliver our message. Today’s meeting will help to brainstorm communication methods regarding the negative publicity surrounding the event with the Chief-of-Police. Today’s meeting will help decide how to address the issue with the public while minimizing any additional loss to the company and how to communicate the ideas without violating HIPAA, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, guidelines. Advantages and disadvantages of communication methods First, we will discuss advantages and disadvantages of using traditional media to distribute our message. Traditional media covers how the majority of the public access health care information. Magazines, newspapers, radio, and television are the outlets for traditional media. The message we need to communicate to the public would reach a large audience through these four avenues. This is an advantage regarding the recent events. Use of the four outlets will...
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...accountability and responsibility of the policy-makers. All these have also become central to establishing sustainable development. Based on the concept of transparency, one significant development that took place in the late 1990’s in Thailand was the promulgation of an Information Act. This Act, which stipulates the openness to the public of information in the possession of state agencies, clearly underpins the universally held concept of the right to know of the people. It has taken quite some time before the public, or even the government officials who are in possession of information, could adequately understand the necessity of information disclosure. Therefore, it was expected from the beginning that it would be the duty of the media to bring this new concept to the attention of the society. To...
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...pre-crisis, to establish notification systems that will allow you to rapidly reach your intended audience using multiple modalities. The Virginia Tech campus shooting catastrophe, where email was the sole means of alerting students initially, proves that using any single modality can make a crisis worse. Some of us may be on email constantly, others not so. Some of us receive our cellphone calls or messages quickly, some not. If you use more than one modality to reach your stakeholders, the chances are much greater that the message will go through. (Bernstein, 2013) To have effective communication in time of crisis, our organization has implemented plans that allow us to effectively deal with the situation, the media and those that are effected. With the use of all forms of media, as well as documented known conditions we hold a strong belief that we can correct this current situation. It has come to the attention of the county and this office of the Emergency Management that an unidentified contaminate has leaked into the local water reserves. This contamination has been found in all city water tabs in the county. We are first reassuring the public that we are taking every precaution, starting at the lowest levels, to ensure our communities safety. With safety in mind first, it is important that we identify the unidentified contaminate, and...
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...Communication Vol. 4, No. 4, November 2011, pp. 246Á251 (Re)conceptualizing Intercultural Communication in a Networked Society Damien Smith Pfister & Jordan Soliz We offer four theses about how intercultural communication is altered in a digitally networked era. Digital media shape intercultural communication by (1) producing new public fora capable of (2) hosting rich, multimodal ‘‘spaces’’ of contact on (3) a scale of many-to-many communication that (4) challenges traditional modes of representation. Keywords: Digital Media; Intercultural Communication; 2009 Iran Protests; Networked Communication As internetworked media technologies gradually diffused throughout the world, they have often been sparks for intercultural dialogue. Internet websites enabled web-savvy organizations, like the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, to circulate their views throughout the 1990s. The power of citizens to communicate directly with each other through digital media was not fully apparent until late 2002, when the pseudonymous Salam Pax began reporting through his blog what life was like for Iraqis in the run-up to the 2003 combat operations. Since then, citizens have relied on the tools of digital media to coordinate protests internally and communicate with outside audiences in a number of colorful revolutions: Rose (Georgia, 2003), Orange (Ukraine, 2004Á2005), Saffron (Burma, 2007), Green (Iran, 2009), and Jasmine (Tunisia, 2011). In January 2011, Egyptian citizens, mobilizing...
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