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Article

This article from the Financial Times is about Virgin Media complaining to OFCOM, the regulators of TV about live Premier League matches being to expensive for consumers. The Premier league matches are either on BSkyB (Sky Sports) or Bt (BT Sports). This means that consumers have to spend at least £51 a month to see all games shown on TV live.


Also, in the UK, the price for domestic football is more than any other country and in Spain, Germany and Italy its half the sum.

In my opinion, I think that in order for the prices to go down, OFCOM needs to give any company that shows the Premier League a cap on how much they can charge allowing more people to watch something they are passionate about.

Technology Debate

"The last 20 years have been more significant in the terms of the media and its role in society than the whole of the previous 200 years."

In my opinion, I disagree with that statement because throughout the last 200 years were stepping stones for new and digital media to come through because if it was not for radio and television, media would have been the same from the 18th century. Also I think there has been advances in the technology that would have not happened without that technology originally exists. However new media has made access more tangible and any and everyone can get to it.

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Second Celebrity Nude Photo Hack Targets Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, and Amber Heard.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/second-celebrity-nude-photo-hack-targets-rihanna-kim-98150335014.html

This article was on the second batch of nudes released on twitter and instagram of some celebrities. One of which was Rihanna. A quote from one of the people pictured said “It has come to our attention that our private moments, that were shared and deleted solely between my husband and myself, have been leaked by some vultures,” the statement read. “I can’t help but to be reminded that since the dawn of time women and children, specifically women of color, have been victimized, and the power over their own bodies taken from them. These atrocities against women and children continue worldwide. For anyone out there also being affected by these and other hacking and hate crimes — We send our love, support and prayers. We have done nothing wrong.”

In my opinion, I believe is is a breech of privacy and unfair on the women's other halves as us public people have seen their other halves naked, which is something that the husbands or boyfriends should have seen 

1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry?
According to the article, the reason why Google has led to the decline of the newspaper industry is because ad companies and companies looking to advertise now look to the internet to do so, this is because there are more people on the net that read newspapers. Also particular newspapers appeal to particular audiences, but the internet appeals to near enough everyone.

2) Do you personally think Google is to blame for newspapers closing and journalists losing their jobs? Why?
Google is to blame, however it not a bad thing in itself. Times have changed, so the newspaper industry need to find something they can do to keep journalist in work, something innovative needs to be brought onto the newspaper scene. Once that happens newspaper companies, may not need money from ads but can maybe get their money form elsewhere. 

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iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch: Twitter reacts to Apple's launch event.

The independent.

This article focuses on the new apple iPhone which will be coming out in mid September and how people took to twitter to give their views on the new iPhone. There was alot of funny tweets that made iPhone seem like a very average phone, this is because people were scrutinizing different faults of previous iPhone in the past. 

This story interested me because it is crazy how people now take to social networking sites to take out their frustration on different subjects. Personally I think the iPhone is a good phone, however, it isn't quite on par with the Samsung range quite yet.

Article 2

Digital journalists have great chance to develop much-needed transparency.

in this article, it talks about how journalist are able to have better quality in their articles due to new and digital media, sources are now better, clarity of images, an also readers are now able to edit some articles, if there are mistakes in it. due to increasing demand to publish quickly, there are obviously going to be mistakes in articles, which can be corrected after they have been published meaning they can kill two birds with one stone.

in my opinion, i think this is a great idea because people are able to correct errors on articles, making them more reliable, however, people may edit things which makes the article wrong, similar to wikipedia.

Article 3

Mapping Digital Media Series: New media & news – Measuring the Impact

This article talked about research made showing how new and digital media is making things like news papers have a fall in demand. 

• The internet is the main alternative platform for content that mainstream media outlets do not carry because of pressure from the state, advertisers, or political parties. It has enlarged debate on sensitive topics.
• Yet digitization has not significantly affected total news diversity. In no case has a new entrant become the leading television station by audience. No pure-player outlet in any country is the most popular outlet by audience.
• Digitization has brought no pressure to reform state broadcasters, or to radically improve the performance of public service media. But digitally-enabled competition has led viewers and listeners in some countries to trust public service and state broadcasters less.
• Where established public service broadcasters have developed a compelling offer on new platforms, they are among the very biggest providers of news. But the long-term efficiency benefits of digitization only become available after very significant new investments.

Above were a few points made in the article showing the impact was quite over exaggerated by other people, as people still buy newspapers and so on.