News article week 6

"How terrorists are using social media"

Article

This article is about the way ISIS is using social media to tweet and post things up to get a reaction and become more known around the world. This is because there is no censorship in social media, meaning they can say what they want without any real repercussions. Also, so many people are on social media which means they can see, those tweets and pictures which means they will be getting infamous coverage. But all press is good press, meaning they are now becoming bigger due to social media and spreading fear around our world.

News Values

Immediacy: has it happened recently?

Immediacy is more important than ever due to news breaking on Twitter or elsewhere online. However, this in turn changes the approach of other news sources such as newspapers as the news will probably already be broken so different angles might be required. Newspapers now contain more comment or opinion rather than the breaking story.

Familiarity: is it culturally close to us in Britain?
Familiarity in my opinion is less important, this is because social media has become more and more international, meaning that news stories are now online before they are in the news, meaning the news may have to search for different news in different places.
Amplitude: is it a big event or one which involves large numbers of people?
Big event stories have been taken over by websites and social media, meaning other news sources have to put an extra spin on the story by bringing in other people to shed their expertise on the story.
 Frequency: did the event happen fairly quickly?
Frequency is very important, because breaking news stories are harder to come by due to social media. So news sources have to rely on events that happen quite quickly n order to report breaking news. This is because if social media gets it first, its not regarded as "breaking"
Unambiguity: is it clear and definite?
This is now harder for news sources to figure this out because social media and newspaper websites allow comments, which means there are many sides and avenues that people can now read, leaving a many sides to an argument meaning other news sources may get confused.
Predictability: did we expect it to happen?
On social media, different people are more in the public eye, so when they tweet or caption something, people can try and look into it, meaning when they do something wrong, it could have been a build up of something that the tweeted about.

Surprise: is it a rare or unexpected event?
I think there is surprise on social media as well as news because there is only a certain amount of  journalism someone can do, meaning there can be certain issues like unexpected deaths that journalist couldn't get to until the story was released. 

Continuity: has this story already been defined as news?
There is a lot of stories that can be seen as continuity on social media as there is always more news from someone on social media. Depending on whether it gets enough coverage, it may get on to other news sources. 

Elite nations and people: which country has the event happened in? Does the story concern well-known people? 
Big countries in the world like America it would get more coverage on social networking than countries such as a smaller one. If it is America it would affect most people in the world including us in the UK, due to trade, however if it was Grenada, it wouldn't affect as many people. People in Grenada may be tweeting it, but it wouldn't trend and other people wouldn't see it.
Negativity: is it bad news?
I think by having social media, anything can be bad news, depending on the points of views people have, however, depending on the majority, news sources will have to see if most people think it is bad news or not.


Balance: the story may be selected to balance other news, such as a human survival story to balance a number of stories concerning death.

NDM 8

Article

This article was a bout a BBC presenter saying that social media can be used by Muslims to fight against terrorism and extremism. This is because of the racial stereotype put on Muslims. She also talks about the division of people and putting people into categories which she thinks is wrong and believes people should be one. Asked what she would call herself, she said: “I would say simply British. I feel it’s a shame that we have started to divide people much more."

In my opinion, I think it is a good idea, as it will get alot of support if you use the social media to help people stop putting Muslim people into a box 

Build The Wall analysis

Section 1

This section spoke about the New York Times and the Washington Post's publishers and how they have the power to change to save "high-end journalism" and how the internet is to blame for the recent failure in print and newspaper companies.

Section 2

In this section, its was shown to the readers, the different avenues that could be explored by the Washington Post and the New York Tomes as they try to win back the profits for all newspaper companies as those to are the major ones, meaning they have the ability to change the industry.

Section 3
In this section, there was a bit of reminiscing going on about the way the internet use to be, a little business plan. Also, in this section it talked about different ways to make profit, such as putting the hard copy price up, which makes readers go online and pay for a subscription which is cheaper.

Section 4

This section is about what would happen to the Washington Post and the New York Times if they were going to go online and paywall in the future

David Simon's overall argument 
I think David Simon believes in order for the newspaper business to move forward, they need to embrace and adapt to the new online subscription. In order to make profit, he believes the newspaper companies need to increase their prices of hard copies and have a cheaper price for online subscriptions, allowing them to make profit either way. He also believes, that if the Washington Post or the New York Times does something, other newspaper companies will follow, therefore they have the power to make other people do the same thing as the two major newspapers, therefore leaving a bit of hope for the newspaper industry. Simon also shows us how realistic having a paywall can be if the quality if the newspaper is the same. He feels that the quality of newspaper needs to increase if they want to have a successful paywall because there are other news sites such as BBC which offer content for free. Also, he feels that if all newspapers have a paywall, meaning that there is very few sources to get free news, the newspaper industry can thrive, but only if they do all so. He also feels that the big, known newspapers will get all the profits, because the news is near enough the same, and whats the point of subscribing to tow or more newspapers with the same content, as you can save money on only subscribing to a large newspaper, which has all the main stories from smaller newspapers. 

Comments

"You must both also individually inform the wire-service consortiums that unless they limit membership to publications, online or off, that provide content only through paid subscriptions, you intend to withdraw immediately from those consortiums."

So wire services would no longer be allowed to provide content to TV and radio stations?

This comment, is spot on because without wire services giving content to the TV, there would be no TV news and news channels. With this being said, there would be no way to receive the news unless you have subscribed, which is very silly, because some people may not be able to subscribe.

"A monopoly! Exactly the right way to go - can I get some fries with that? "
This is true to a certain extent because if all paywall prices are the same, people are more inclined to buy the more well known newspaper, meaning only one or two newspaper companies will recive sales for their newspaper online.

"Let's see if I understand the major points here:

Only the New York Times and the Washington Post matter.

No real journalism gets done outside print newspapers.

The regional papers all stink and deserve to die.

The AP must kick out the broadcasters and dump the commercial customers, or die.

If we engineer a mass suicide by the entire newspaper industry, kill the Associated Press, strangle the broadcasters and continue to pretend that the rest of the world doesn't exist, we'll ensure the perpetuation of the 1980s Washington Post-New York Times news empire so they can hire 10 reporters in St. Louis.

Did I get the gist of it?"

This person is too extreme, therefore I don't agree with what is saying, because he has taken a childish approach to rebut Simon.
My opinion
I think that paywall seems like a good idea, as long as all newspapers do it, if not, they will not make money if there is online news going out for free. I will not pay for news, due to my disposible income, and because i can use BBC news to get news for free and it is a news source that is unbiased.

Feedback NDM Test 1

WWW:
The second half of the essay just starts to address the question with some interesting points.

EBI:
The first half is very weak and doesn't lay out a convincing argument at all. not nearly enough focus on the institution.
Written English is poor your opening paragraph is not the way to start an essay.
Need much more focus on the question

LR:
Write a new intro paragraph clearly laying out both sides of the argument.

NDM 7

1 in 3 teenagers meet social media 'friends' in real life.

Article.

This article was about the amount of youth that have met people via social media. For instance meeting someone on twitter and then meeting up with them in person to go for a coffee. There was also a survey done which showed a quarter of youth feel happier online than they do in public or in person. Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat are the most used social network. I was surprised not to see Instagram to be honest.

In my opinion, I believe there is way too much dependence on social media because people are using it more and more each day, meaning they are not allowing normal communication skills, that you need in every job, to come naturally to them because they are too engrossed in the life of people they have never seen in real life, or the life of celebrities that don't even know them and have more money than they have fans.  

NDM 6

Social Media Clues To Pub Shooting Death.

http://news.sky.com/story/1347871/social-media-clues-to-pub-shooting-death

In this article, it is about a man getting shot to death due to a social media fallout according to the police. They looked at his social media accounts and saw arguments on them. I think do people actually fight over social media incidents, especially at the age of 26. However, its just an idea at the moment, but as the police, it is easy to just blame a shooting on social media to give it a bad rep as the police do get ranted about on social media.