Essays on Media Industry

The UN Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a guideline challenging the key problems of the 21st century: poverty, inequality and climate change. One of the pre-conditions to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals is the empowerment of women, which is reflected in the goal on gender equality and women’s rights...

The definition of fake news is “false stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke” (Cambridge). It’s a tactic used by politicians, or voters, to further their success in political elections by making other candidates look bad. With the...

It’s the year 2016. A young girl living in New York City is on her way to the Javis Center. She walks with confidence; she is hopeful. Hopefully because this is the last time she will do this walk and the next time she walks home all the months of hard work, endless late nights...

My journalism practical project was a 20-minute radio feature on Veganism and the problems they face. The reason for choosing Veganism as my subject was because I am a vegetarian and soon want to convert myself into a vegan though they both sound the same but are very different from each other. The main difference...

Propaganda happens when spreading or publishing of information/news in support of a cause. While hearing this word (propaganda) it is often used in a negative sense because especially politician who spread false news to grab the attention of a people and to get their way on power or any campaign that is used to persuade...

Fashion Journalism History Virginia Pope is the pioneer of fashion journalism. She began working for the New York Times in 1925, with her work made fashion a serious contender for newspaper coverage, destroying the idea that “fashion journalism” was an oxymoron. She began reporting on the “Paris haute couture collection” (Luther, 2019) in 1934 and...

Peter Weir’s movie “The Truman Show” follows a man named Truman Burbank who lives in a “world” that revolves entirely around himself. Everything known to him including is not real and all the people he thinks he is friends with are merely paid Hollywood actors. Everything that occurs in his life is put on display...

Today I will be looking at how groups are misrepresented in news articles, the television and documentaries. The topic that I’m going to discuss is how the attitudes values and beliefs surrounding ‘poverty’ have been reinforced through the media and explore ways that society can abolish this misrepresentation. This awful concept of underclass is really...

Introduction The media is charged with the responsibility of ensuring it informs, educates as well as entertains members of the public (Attar, 111). However, the media is also responsible for doing the above things in a manner that is honest and credible. This means that all the news stories relayed through the media should be...

Fake news are false stories with untrue or fake information which are spread on the internet, or using other media, in order to mislead people with lies or incomplete stories. Some people might call this false news, propaganda, disinformation, yellow journalism or conspiracy theories. Fake news may be new, but actually the only new thing...