New and digital media essay question

NDM 18

WTA Tour agrees record rights deal worth £335m over 10 years

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The Women's Tennis Association has signed a new record media rights contract that it says will be worth more than £335m ($525m) over 10 years. This channel will be showing singles matches, which is around 2,000 fixtures, for the first time.

Before, only 1 out of three matches were broadcasted

According to some people this deal is a "game changer"

The WTA and Perform are forming WTA Media, which will produce all main-draw matches in singles, along with the semi-finals and finals in doubles at every tour event.

In my opinion, this is a good way for females to get into tennis as it is being broadcasted. In the sport of tennis, women are now on a level playing field with men. Now both men and women get the same prize money after each tournament, and also now are broadcasted more.

NDM 17

John Seven: Poor journalism does a disservice to us all

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The fallout over the Rolling Stone apology regarding its story on the University of Virginia rape case has continued. 

For those who missed it, Rolling Stone issued an apology over a piece about an alleged gang rape, citing inconsistencies of the sources' story casting extreme doubt about the accusation. As scrutiny was placed on the particulars of the reporting, it became obvious that writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely had not done a very good job of substantiating any claims, cross-referencing stories or doing much more than taking the victim at face value. It's the job of the police, trauma counselors and others to take the victim's story at face value as a true claim, but it is the responsibility of investigators, whether law enforcement or journalistic, to seek the truth.

In my opinion, I think that journalism when its not being done to help or give information is pointless. This is because if there is no story, a journalist may put a comment into someones mouth, casing a big scene and uproar. This may jeopardise someones future which is detrimental to a persons life

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I think that new and digital media provides the audience with so much more power than ever before. Castells point of “culture of freedom” taps into my point as there are many was to now access the media, such as the internet, social media, mobile phones, which enables us to find out information and read the news. There are also many ways we can access the news. It is now even easier to do so now. We have newspapers, online websites and apps on our phone. There are also many different sites to do so. For example, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch’s company have subscription for their news, but some newspapers have a website which is for free. People can watch what they want, which brings me onto the Blumer and Katz theory of uses and gratification. People may watch the news and other types of media due to what they are looking for in a show or news station. The main things in this theory are entertainment, surveillance, personal identification and relationships. This means people can watch what they want according to their pretences and values.

Yes, newsrooms are shrinking — but journalism is growing

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This article is an article that shows journalism is growing whilst newsrooms decrease. New York Times newsroom, with the paper essentially paying about 100 staffers to leave, by compensating them with up to three weeks of salary for every year they were employed. This means that there is an increase in citizen journalism which leads to journalism companies growing. This is because, it decrease cost, but also gives them stories and footage which allows them to use, for free or very little cost. In my opinion, I believe that although journalism is growing, newsrooms should be growing too, in order to allow journalist to do what they do best. And if they cant get into a job which they are qualified for, there was no point them taking time out to do so.  

NDM 16

Mario Balotelli sorry for 'offensive' social media post

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On Monday, Mario Balotelli posted a picture in social media which caused uproar. below, was the picture he posted and later removed due to the stick he received virally. The picture seems like a funny picture to prevent racism, but the bottom of the picture says "and grabs coins like a Jew." This is the part of the picture people found racist.

In my opinion, I believe, it was a good gesture, received in the wrong way. This is because Mario Balotelli later claimed his mother is Jewish, implying, the was no malice in the picture, and it was just a little bit of a joke for a good cause.Due to the comments he received, Balotelli later took it down and apologised as he realised how his picture could have been taken out of context. I think it should have not got this much publicity on the news, because it wasn't that major. Its just another reason for Mario Balotelli to receive negative publicity.