| Theme | Newsbeat | War of the Worlds |
| Ownership | Owned by the BBC, the BBC is owned and payed for the by the public. Payed through TV licenses BBC Charter: Educate, Inform, Entertain | Owned by CBS, CBS is payed for by Paramount global. Privately owned, available to everyone. |
| Regulation | Regulated by Ofcom which receives it regulation rules through the UK gov. Also regulates off of the BBC’s Charter. | CBS is regulated by the The Federal Communications Commission (US FCC) |
| Habermas | Transformation of the public sphere, the BBC (when making money) re-invests it into BBC to make it better, adapt it and sticks to their charter tighter. | Sticks to making a profit rather than bettering itself. Does not transform the public sphere, the polar opposite of the BBC. |
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| Audience | Active consumption, choosing to listen in and create opinions and thoughts based on the stories which are on the media/radio from newsbeat. | Passive consumption, taking in what war of the worlds is saying and just believing it. |
| Lazarfeld | two-step flow of mass communication – gravitate to people who share the same interests The book explains that people’s reactions to media messages are mediated by interpersonal communication with members of their social environment. | not everyone who was terrorised by the radio play was actually listening to the broadcast. They heard the rumours from people they trusted in their social circle. |
| audience (active/passive) | uses and gratifications Audiences are more active, they are not just given programmes that they want but are given what they need (Paternalism) | Audiences are more passive, they are only shown the programmes that they want to allow in order for CBS to make a profit. |
| Stuart Hall | Hall’s encoding / decoding model of communication offers three hypothetical positions – the dominant, oppositional, and negotiated readings. | In terms of Stuart Hall’s reception theory and his encoding / decoding model of communication, this is the audience’s framework of knowledge. |
| New Technology | Newsbeat is on social media, internet radio and apps. | |
| Cross media creation | Newsbeat is on social media, internet radio and apps. Can be read and understood on different platforms for the younger audiences to access it anywhere and whenever they want. | |
| Curran | “profit-driven motives take precedence over creativity” CBS creating the idea of a a massive panic to create a huge amount of money over the idea of making a good entertainment. | |
| Seaton | POWER AND MEDIA: patterns of ownership and control are the most significant factors in how the media operate. Controls how they want to target audiences that are informed and want to learn. Seaton says “Sells audiences to advertisers not products to audiences” which the BBC doesn’t do, they do this by sticking to their “educate” ethos and making stories to educate. | Provides to audiences the idea of entertainment without sticking to any sort of ethos or education. Only entertainment and selling a big story which we don’t know is true (I.E people running out of their homes in fear of the story that they are hearing. |
