YEAR 13 24th October 2017

Resources...Media Debates andf issues....

Internet trolls ruined my life...BBC article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41693437
Another wonderful piece of filmmaking using minimal equipment and sharing an important news story with the world. This is the work of Gabriel Chaim:
https://www.channel4.com/news/raqqa-survivors-tell-their-stories
Brilliant journalist Daphne Galizia...murdered in Malta:
https://www.channel4.com/news/journalist-killed-in-car-bombing-in-malta 
So far in 2017..30 journalists have died attempting to capture a version of the truth.
https://cpj.org/killed/2017/
Has NDM created the platform for more thorough investigative journalism?

Analysis:
I Phone 7..The City:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waTteMeg4Ag
Samsung Galaxy S8..Breaking Out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKSVpOwB_jU&index=2&list=RD06JwASE4p4s
McDonalds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVw3HcUV_KM

YEAR 13 Oct 17th 2017..

NRA advert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrnIVVWtAag
Gun control advert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LORVfnFtcH0
Sandy Hook Promise advert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8syQeFtBKc

How is meaning being shaped by two of these media texts?

YEAR 13 Oct 10th 2017

blog entry from last session:
http://fishymediaresources.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/year-13-6th-oct-17.html

When we discuss media bias and consider how media bias can be challenged, it is important to consider the power of the advertising industry. Read these resources below:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/25/google-youtube-advertising-extremist-content-att-verizon
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37962425
STOP FUNDING HATE:
https://stopfundinghate.org.uk/
You Tube advert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aw966AqgCA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xl3L9urro8 
FOX NEWS drops 'Fair and Balanced'..it is now 'Most watched. Most trusted.' :
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jun/15/fox-news-drops-fair-and-balanced-slogan

YEAR 13 6th Oct 17.

Here are the front pages of the mainstream UK press the day after Theresa May's speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. What do these front pages tell us about the mainstream British print media?

This session explored issues linked to UK MAINSTREAM PRINT MEDIA and its obvious political bias. In the next session we will be producing a written response to the question:
What do we learn about the UK Mainstream print media from the reaction to Theresa May's speech?
This written response will be 'in class' and will consider specific textual reference to analyse how media forms are shaping meaning and will also consider media theory. Students will be asked to consider if we deserve a more balanced political narrative from the mainstream media.

I thought it was really interesting that different students perceived this BBC Newsnight report in different ways. Some believed it to bias against the Conservatives, some too bias toward the Conservative Party, and some believed it offered an example of balanced journalism. VERY INTERESTING. This experiment underlines the difficulty facing the reporting of politics by the BBC. Bel;ow is a link to the Newsnight resource.
BBC Newsnight report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0EvDuZq7oQ 

This session explored the front pages below:

HOMEWORK: Complete the essay...To what extent has NDM empowered the individual and created a more democratic world?
I have given you a lot of ideas with this task. I expect some excellent essays on Tuesday.