-UK regards press freedom as absolute freedom, the government leaves it down to the market forces to decide which press products survive.
-In the case of the press, with certain limited expectations, no legal restriction is placed on the right to buy or launch a newspaper. This ensures, in liberal theory, that the press is free, diverse and representative (Curran and Seaton).
In this view of freedom of expression, it is the interests of the press, not of its readers nor the subjects of its coveragewhich are fundamental.
Curran and Seaton – the idea that the media is controlled by a small number of companies primarily driven by the logic and power. The idea that more socially diverse patterns of ownership help to create the conditions for more varied and adventurous media production.
The i is a British national morning paper published in London by Daily Mail and General Trust distributed across the United Kingdom. It is aimed at “readers and lapsed readers” of all ages and commuters with limited time, and was originally launched in 2010 as a sister paper to The Independent.
Thei was named British National Newspaper of the Year in 2015.
Thepublic sphere is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action.
Such a discussion is called public debate and is defined as the expression of views on matters that are of concern to the public—often, but not always, with opposing or diverging views being expressed by participants in the discussion.
Public debate takes place mostly through the mass media, but also at meetings or through social media, academic publications and government policy documents.
AGENDA SETTING – Agenda-setting theory describes the “ability to influence the importance placed on the topics of the public agenda”. Agenda-setting theory was formally developed by Max McCombs and Donald Shaw in a study on the 1968 American presidential election.
FRAMING – Framing involves social construction of a social phenomenon – by mass media sources, political or social movements, political leaders, or other actors and organizations. … This is done through the media’s choice of certain words and images to cover a story (i.e. using the word fetus vs. the word baby).
-The authors propose that the mass communication of the media of the US are effective and powerful and ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function. This is said to be by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions and and self-censorship.
-The book was revised 20 years after is first publication to take account of developments such as the fall of the Soviet Union. There has been debate about how the internet has changed the public’s access to information since 1988.
In the 1960s, linguist Noam Chomsky proposed a revolutionary idea: We are all born with an innate knowledge of grammar that serves as the basis for all language acquisition. In other words, for humans, language is a basic instinct. The theory, however, has long been met with widespread criticism — now it has changed.
QUOTES
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
Share – accessing Teen Vogue online allows the readership to post comments and connect with different members of society
Active – reading Teen Vogue online instead of the magazine is active due to the fact it is always accessible
Endless – again, reading Teen Vogue online instead of the magazine is endless are there is no last page, there are other pages and hyperlinks with further things to read into
