Since Jon Stewart has retired from The Daily Show in 2015, leaving a gap many do not ever see being closed by any of his successors, US late-night television has nevertheless been swamped by his fosterlings. Stewart quit the field…
It is not a really new finding that the media tries to get viewers and readers with shocking headlines and tragic stories. Family killed in car accident certainly awakens more interest than Car drives against tree. But why does media creates even more drama when the actual story is…
The Columbia plane crash, yesterday, is all over the news at the moment. Of course, 71 people died in this tragic accident. But in terms of values of mass media, there is more to it than only a tragedy.
In a way, I feel bad. I have the nagging suspicion that in repeatingly writing about Donald Trump, I’m being part of the problem of giving a notorious attention seeker even more attention, be it ever so small and humble as this post…
Nowadays, there is a growing trend in the development of online youth magazines. They are written for an audience of 18 to 30 years and therefore especially focus on topics these people are interested in. According to “bento” and…
A lot of media critics denounce journalism for more and more being about opinions and less about what it ought to be: fair, balanced and impartial reporting. Creators of fake news are a striking example of how easy it is for people to make money without taking…
It was yesterday, october 29th, when I went to Francfort airport with my aunt, who wanted to spend some time with her relatives in Francfort and fly back to her home country, when I noticed what was going on in the famous Francfort…
In Tennessee, there is a woman on trial because she decided to end her pregnancy, not in a clinic, but in her bathtub at home. In Tennessee, there is a woman on trial because she found that the best…
There are countless of articles on how Facebook filters its content and only shows certain posts to users while trying to avoid showing others. Many of them simply state this fact, explaining what Facebook’s purpose behind all of this is and so on. Good. People…
A few weeks ago the long-awaited seventh season of The Walking Dead started and now I stumbled upon this article online. I binge-watched the first four seasons of the show about two years ago and the fifth and sixth season as soon as they were available to…
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Finding the baddies via tv and the newspaper is so yesterday!
We all know “Aktenzeichen XY Ungelöst”, a show with the purpose of finding criminals with the help of attentive citizens who watch the program and might have the last clue to solve the case.
We all know about media outlets as well as about random people on the Internet and what they do. They broadcast a certain piece of information out into the world, be it current events or that your grandma accidently won a gold medal in Olympic force feeding.
This weeks hacker attack on Telekom was all over the news. Interviews were held on the radio and TV several times during the day giving the newest updates on the solution and cause of the hacker attack. The routers of 900 000 households were affected by this assault. This incident…
