News Unit

What is News? 

• Information 
• Its a business 
• Its meant to make money 
• It informs the public of current situations  
• A broadcast or published report of news 
• A person or thing considered interesting enough to be reported in the news. 
• Informative but has become entertainment (Inform and Entertainment) 
• Fake news 
• Political 
• Profit 
• Educate 
• Influence or Persuade

5 main purpose of news.

• inform 
• educate 
• entertain 
• profit
• influence/ persuade 

Facts 

Newspaper are NOT PSB (like the BBC) they are commercial publications. Over three (77.8%) of the British press is owned by a handful of Billionaires. Over a quarter (27.3 per cent) of the press is owned by Lord Rothermere and 24.9 per cent by Rupert Murdoch -  between them these two men have over 50 per cent of the printed press. 

Newspaper and their online publications (example of synergy/ convergence) are not legally obliged to provide a un-bias public information service. These are ethnical and moral codes of press conduct but the printed press is self regulatory industry.  

Fake News 

Cottingley Fairies - Example of Fake news




Orson wells war of the worlds - Example of Fake news



The Beast of Bodmin - Example of Fake news, Modern day



Great White sighting off the coast of cornwall - Example of Fake news, Modern day



Huston airport flooding from global warming really a CGI image - Example of fake news, international



Red Bus Boris - It is and isn't fake news, Boris had to explain in court.



Muslim Christmas lights - Another Fake news example, xenophobic