- well acted
- well written
- appealing scenery
- good lead to climax
- strong actor chemistry
- interesting plot
- more than 1 genre eg comedy, drama
- showcases social and cultural contexts within newspaper companies
Broadcasting -communicating with loads of people
Narrowcasting – communicating with a niche audiences
populism – based off what majority want – giving people what they want
paternalism- people with authority restrict freedom on others with rules, regulations and set plans.
There’s on going disputes within the BBC about populism and paternalism due to which would be more beneficial for the BBC as a whole.
ethos- the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and aspirations
Ethos of BBC- to inform, entertain and educate
BBC charter has a royal charter which sets out the arrangements for governance of the British broadcast corporation.
The start of television- Grace Wyndham Goldie said how it transforms time and space, for example your at home they’re in a studio when they did shooting a week ago and you can watch it there. Not live.
transforms the public sphere – habermas
Lord Reith came up with the BBCs Ethos of to inform educate and entertain.
Fear of new technology and people were unaware and scared of what this technology could bring.
BBC acted like a social cement, it was so important everyone connected and communicated because and about it.
Habermas
treating the digital public sphere the same way we treat radio and TV seems wrong. Unlike radio and TV, which are broadcast on a limited resource – called “spectrum” – the internet is unbounded, limitless
The BBC’s online endeavours have always been contentious: at the beginning because they only benefitted the small percentage of licence fee payers who had got themselves online; later because they were accused of taking business away from commercial online content providers.
sense of time, BBC made everyone aware it was 1pm for example so people would change clocks
created communication between social classes.
jean seaton
what is broadcasting – “the concept of broadcasting has always been of a comprehensive service of characters, with the duty of public cooperation of to bringing public awareness to a whole range of activity and expression developed in society.”
the state and broadcasting
noted that the government were under constant suspicion of using an opportunity to its own advantage within the broadcasting world
accountability within broadcasting
the public had a problem with the chairman of the BBC not because he was the chair man of the institution but because he had government power.
independant professionals
the public couldn’t rely on the quality of the broadcasting as to-do so one must ignore the pressures which determine the broadcasting choices.
independant broadcasters
arguements that is is functional anf fully in control
other side of argument is same independences poses a serious threat to political institutions.
choice vs public service
commercial broadcasting isn’t based on programs to audience but audience to advertisers.
Curran and Seaton
Curran and Seaton suggest that profit driven motives take precedence over creativity in the world of commercial media.