Thursday, November 10, 2005

Often times, well most times, newspapers and media in general, are on a time limit to get the "top stories" out, in order to attract a big enough audience, and to keep that audience buying there newspapers and watching the broadcasts. Yellow journalism, Campbell describes, presented a new format, with color and appeal to all socio-economic levels. They were also hurried to get the news stories out to make a profit, a theme that underlies most of the media today (market-driven). If this is so, how can the media actually be doing it's job of presenting the public with informed stories that are accurate and credible? I think that newspapers and the media do indeed follow yellow journalism's characteristics, and sometimes this can be problematic. I think that there is not enough coverage on the rainforest project, and that newspapers and the media are focusing on other issues, which might sell more. The media should focus more on this project, especially since it involves so much money. I certainly want to read more about it, and I would like for the media to question the institutions further, especially since it seems they have been stalling on the land proposal for over two months now. What do you think?

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