| 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. |
| Chomsky | 5 filters of mass media: 1.Structures of ownership – BBC owned by the public, regulated by their own Ethos. 2.The role of advertising – Ads for the BBC are on social media platforms displaying what they offer, for example the “Trust is earned” publication video they made. 3.Links with ‘The Establishment’ – BBC isn’t directly connected to the government however it is regulated by a set of rules the government chooses. 4.Diversionary tactics – ‘flack’ – None really applies as the BBC specialises in its truth. 5.Uniting against a ‘common enemy’ | |
| 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 | Harry and Kate promoting mental Health on mental Health Day, Stormzy being put on the show. This uses opinion leaders so that its not the BBC directly telling the audience how to feel, its their favourite influencers. | It is written by Orsen Wells, who was a popular author uses the two step flow of directly injecting the idea of entertain through War Of the Worlds, at 0:20 it is announced that Orsen will be reading the show and is also announced it is a story from the Theatre on Air. |
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| 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. | The show was originally published as a book in the UK and US in 1897, then a radio show in 1938 and then a TV series in 1988 |
| 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. |
