Inside the BBC and CNN

Inside the BBC and CNN
Author: Lucy Küng-Shankleman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135122369

Inside the BBC and CNN provides a unique insight into two of the world's best-known media organisations, during a period of great change and new challenges. The BBC and CNN have very different histories, remits and identities, but both must now compete to provide news in a media environment being reshaped by increasing competition, globalisation, digitisation and convergence. In addition they face increasing pressures of criticism focussed on the struggle for ratings and the perceived "dumbing down" of programming. Drawing on intensive research carried out among senior managers in both organisations, Lucy Küng-Shankleman's study explores the beliefs and attitudes that shape management priorities and broadcasting policy. More controversially, it examines how each organisation's distinct cultural beliefs - about broadcasting's fundamental purpose, about the nature of competition, and about the relationship between competition and quality - have laid the foundations for their current and past success, but could now threaten to limit their ability to respond to the unprecedented changes underway in the world's media landscape.

News from the BBC, CNN, and Al-Jazeera

News from the BBC, CNN, and Al-Jazeera
Author: Leon Barkho
Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Al Jazeera (Television network)
ISBN: 9781572739758

"The three gigantic media corporations, the BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera, are largely responsible for refining and shaping our views of events in the world. Their informational and communicative arm is unprecedented in the history of human communication. This book deals with their Middle East coverage, particularly the Israeli-Palestinian struggle and the war in Iraq."--[book cover].

Crazy Like a Fox

Crazy Like a Fox
Author: Scott Collins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In the tradition of "The Late Shift" comes the dramatic inside story of how upstart Fox News toppled CNN and MSNBC for cable news supremacy.

Media Organization and Production

Media Organization and Production
Author: Simon Cottle
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2003-05-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780761974949

Drawing on the work of international contributors, this book examines a wide range of global-local media organizations and the production of different mediums and genres. Chapters examine a range of topics that help to illuminate how cultural production often involves a complex articulation of differing influences and constraints.

The CNN Effect

The CNN Effect
Author: Piers Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2005-07-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134513135

The CNN Effect examines the relationship between the state and its media, and considers the role played by the news reporting in a series of 'humanitarian' interventions in Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Rwanda. Piers Robinson challenges traditional views of media subservience and argues that sympathetic news coverage at key moments in foreign crises can influence the response of Western governments.

Can We Trust the BBC?

Can We Trust the BBC?
Author: Robin Aitken
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1408183447

This book asks a big question: can we trust the BBC? As the most famous media brand in the world, the BBC is growing bigger and more powerful every year. Its reputation depends on honest and accurate journalism. But this book argues that the Corporation's own pervasive political culture imperils its impartiality. It demonstrates how some groups and viewpoints get favourable treatment while others are left out in the cold. The book examines the concept of 'public sector broadcasting' and asks if that has come to mean simply radio and television free of commercial bias. It argues that there are other 'hidden persuaders' that we the audience should be alert to. Drawing on the author's twenty-five years as a BBC reporter and executive, the books blends analysis and sharp polemic to paint a vivid picture of life inside the news machine from a uniquely privileged point of view. It also tells the story of how the BBC responded to a dissident in its own ranks. Robin Aitken responds to the criticism of the book by many ex-BBC employees through the media spectrum on its initial publication, and details his correspondence with current employees over his decision to publish. This book is a timely contribution to the ongoing debate about public broadcasting.

Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Jacob Mey, a Festschrift

Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Jacob Mey, a Festschrift
Author: Ken Turner
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2012-11-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004253203

This is a collection of invited papers that honours Professor Jacob Mey on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Professor Mey is, and has for a long time been, at once one of the most respected, enterprising, industrious, scholarly and, now, avuncular members of the numerous linguistics communities in which he has worked. He has made, over a distinguished working life, significant contributions to all of the sub-disciplines of linguistics, from phonetics, through phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and especially pragmatics. He has sought to make connections between these sub-disciplines and broader areas of thought. These connections have resulted in ground breaking advances in, for example, Japanese sociolinguistics, pragmatics and artificial intelligence, Marxist linguistics, pragmatics and therapy, pragmatics and machine-processed information, gender and language, literary pragmatics and societal pragmatics. The collection ends with an in-depth discussion between Professor Mey and one of the editors in which Professor Mey speaks fully and frankly about his life in language and language in life.

Political Discourse in the Media

Political Discourse in the Media
Author: Anita Fetzer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027254030

This book departs from the premise that political discourse is intrinsically connected with media discourse, as shaped by its cultural and transcultural characteristics. It presents a collection of papers which examine political discourse in the media from a cross-culturally comparative perspective in Arab, Dutch, British, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Israeli, Swedish, US-American and international contexts. By using different theoretical frameworks, such as conversation analysis, discourse analysis, pragmatics and systemic functional linguistics, the papers reflect current moves in political discourse analysis to cross-disciplinary and methodological boundaries by integrating semiotics, particularly multimodality, cognition, context, genre and recipient design.

Modern Global Economic System: Evolutional Development vs. Revolutionary Leap

Modern Global Economic System: Evolutional Development vs. Revolutionary Leap
Author: Elena G. Popkova
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 2287
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030694151

This proceedings book reflects the alternative way of development of the modern global economic system. It sets evolutionary development in opposition to revolutionary leap. The search for the best way to develop the world economy in the present and future is carried out. The social environment and the human-centered development of the modern global economic system have been explored. The features of training of personnel for the modern global economic system through the development of vocational education and training have been studied. Sustainable development, energy and food security have been identified as significant milestones of the progress of the modern global economic system. Innovations and digital technologies have been suggested as the drivers of growth and development of the modern global economic system. Consideration has been given to the institutional framework and legal groundwork for the development of the modern global economic system. The fundamentals have been identified and recommendations have been put forward for improving governmental regulation, financial and capital investment support for integration in the modern global economic system. The book includes the best works based on the results of the 22nd International Research-to-Practice Conference “Current Issues of the Global Economy” which was held on June 19, 2020, at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (PFUR) (Moscow, Russia) and the 14th National Research-to-Practice Conference “A New Paradigm of Social and Economic Development in the Age of Intelligent Machines,” which was held on May 14–16, 2020 (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), VIII International Research-to-Practice Conference “Multipolar Globalization and Russia,” which was held on May 21–23, 2020 (Rostov-on-Don, Russia), III All-Russian Research-to-Practice Conference “Power, Business, and Education: The Ascent to Man,” which was held on May 21–22, 2020 (Krasnoyarsk, Russia), International Research-to-Practice Conference “Current Issues and Ways of Industrial Development: Engineering and Technologies,” which was held from September 28, 2020, till October 1, 2020 (Komsomolsk-on-Amur), and the 15th National Research-to-Practice Conference “New Models of Behavior of Market Players in the Conditions of Digital Economy,” which was held on October 29–30, 2020, at Ufa State Oil Technical University, Institute of Economics and Service (Ufa, Russia). The target audience of the book consists of scholars studying the features of development of the global economic system at the present stage and the prospects for its future progress.