Friday, August 04, 2006

One News, Your News, Our News?, Lazy News?

First of all, this is my very first blog, so ten points to me. Secondly, i cant spell and have terrible grammar, for this i blame text messaging and not owning a dictionary.

One News, "Was lowering the drinking age a mistake?", this is the kind of journalism that really makes you think. You all must have seen the advertisments posted in bus stops and on TV about how One News is all about you, your thoughts, your oppinions, but it seems their new approach to journalism is to not actually do any journalism themselves. If any of you have had the pleasure of watching One News then you'll see some of this, for example their snow reports taken on what seems like mobile phones with presenters from what seems like right off the street. Now i do see how this could be appealing, it's YOUR News, its yours, the stories I (or at least the majority) want to see, we get what we want, the popular always wins out when it concerns making money from advertisers. Luke described in the lecture how the audience having such a power (to mediate the media), can be a risky thing, i agree, but it seems that One News has attempted to do both (and in my oppinion failed due to their crap choice in an issue to advertise this on). What im trying to get at is how can One News claim to be our news and still primarily be a commercial organisation?

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