Think It Through: the Clearer Thinking Podcast Episode 6: What Do We Mean When We Talk About "The Media?"
April interviews journalism professor Jennifer (Jenny) Mitchell about today's media landscape. Topics include what qualifies as media, who owns giant media conglomerates, the difference between hard news and opinion pieces, professional journalists vs. citizen journalists and bloggers/vloggers, the ethical principles that professional journalists should follow, and the credible news sources that Jenny relies on.
Episode 6 Show Notes:
A list of top media conglomerates:
https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/021815/worlds-top-ten-media-companies-dis-cmcsa-fox.aspx
A list of media billionaires:
An explanation of “infotainment:”
https://www.medialit.org/reading-room/whatever-happened-news
The difference between hard news and opinion:
https://digitalresource.center/content/lesson-5-news-vs-opinion
Least biased sites for news:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-world-news-websites-guaranteed-free-censorship/
A decent article by a young media student who seems to have a handle on the issues with citizen journalists:
An academic paper on the topic of citizen vs professional journalists:
https://homepage.univie.ac.at/homero.gil.de.zuniga/documents/Holton,%20Coddington%20&%20Gil%20de%20Zuniga%20(2013)%20Journalism%20Practice.pdf
The Society of Professional Journalist’s Code of Ethics:
https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
A great article about journalism as a calling:
The American Press Association’s (APA) list of principles that all journalists should abide by:
https://americanpressassociation.com/principles-of-journalism/
The link to OnlineNewspapers.com:
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
A link to CSN’s Coyote Student News, the student-run paper that Jennifer Mitchell oversees:
https://coyotestudentnews.com/
A really, really good (and disturbing) discussion about how disinformation travels through mass media and into social media:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-yochai-benkler-mass-media-disinformation-campaigns
An explanation of “false balance:”