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♫Implications♫ (Media Companies (Viewer count (Higher viewer counts = more…
♫Implications♫
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Scrutiny
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Over 40 media personnel clamored to get even the faintest hint of what is happening to Schapelle Corby. They booked 40 people onto a plane so they could attempt to interview her on her flight home. Does the media have no boundaries on how far they are willing to go.
A similar story happened a while ago with princess Diana which ended up with the princess actually dying and the media taking almost no heat for it. Should the media be able to be held accountable for things like this or are they really just "presenting the news".
Audience
Bias
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Media outlets will use bias to make who-ever is watching either agree or disagree quite strongly with their story. The negative or positive association will always bring in an audience because people love their opinions and always want to argue them, which draws them into the mix.
Media companies that use the effects of bias more often gather a bigger audience because of how much people like their opinions, like "stuff.co.nz" or "the project" and are more likely to inflict that bias onto the people that watch/read/listen to their show. Shows like "Radio NZ" tend to present their views without bias and with a lot more fact. While they do have smaller audience because of this, the people who listen to their show are much better informed on the topics they present.
Ways of thinking
This bias can inflict it's ways of thinking onto it's audience which can make a sort of mob mentality in society
It creates a hive mind or echo chamber where the same ideas are repeated by the media to the audience. This means that the audience constantly has the same ideas repeated to them and they believe everything they are told without questioning it.
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