A Critical Analysis and Comparison Between How News Is Broadcast on Television and How It Is Portrayed in Newspapers

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A critical analysis and comparison between how news is broadcast on television and how it is portrayed in newspapers will be conducted. Both television and newspapers serve as a medium of communication to the mass public. This essay will serve as a contrast and comparison but while analyzing how each product operates individually. For the purpose of this essay we will focus on the 24 hour news channel “Sky News” and the front cover of “The Sun” newspaper. These will be interesting as a comparison as the same company and man, Rupert Murdock, control them both. In modern society it is hard to believe everything or anything that you may see or hear in the media as how are you to know what sources are viable and correct. For example some broadcasters such as Fox News in America are hugely biased anti-democrats. How are you to know this when first tuning in and you can be fed lies. The ever changing media and fight for an audience means that broadcasters are looking for any kind of line or oddity that will give them more viewers. “In the scramble for audience figures and the swirl of internet comment available, the lines of ‘news’, ‘comment’, ‘entertainment’ and ‘opinion’ are becoming increasingly blurred.”(Branston, 2010) We will first analyse “Sky News” as a means of broadcasting news. Sky News is a cable channel that provides a 24 hour news service to the public for free. When looking into a “news channel” we first need to look into the actual time that is devoted to the news. In general with Sky News you have maybe a 20 minute slot of news followed by an ad break and then it goes back and repeats the same news. They use repetition and will report anything as “Breaking news” once it is a change from the normal. How the news is distributed is also a very important factor. It makes a huge different as to whether the news anchor is male or female, how the
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