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Peirspictiochtai
The full title of this column is-?Peirspictiochtai Ar An Saol, which is Gaelic for Perspectives on Life, written by Richard McDonough. It will show up on Wednesdays, but the first one is coming on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024.
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Zero-Based News
Part Fifteen
Numbers and statistics are utilized in a variety of ways by media organizations as they report news.
Some media organizations will use numbers and statistics together to present news that is accurate and factual as well as truthful. Other media organizations use one or the other, but not both, in detailing accurate and factual information that may or may not be truthful. Still other media organizations use both numbers and statistics, but use different situations to present accurate and factual information that may or may not be truthful.
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Zero-Based News
Part Fourteen
When “news” is presented as “news” by those who control media organizations, it may appear that that “news” reflects reality to those who read, watch, and listen to that “news.”
That may or may not be the case.
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Zero-Based News
Part Thirteen
Drama is not just something that makes a literary novel a good read, drama is also a key ingredient used by some in media organizations to determine what "news" is "news" as well as how "news" is reported to their consumers.
The influence of drama has been a facet of news reporting.
The words, the images, and/or the sounds can convey the drama of the news.
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Zero-Based News
Part Twelve
One of the ways “news” becomes “news” for a specific media organization is because someone else has determined it is “news.”
Sometimes, for example, Media Organization X might quote Media Organization Y as stating that “news” is “news.” Both media organizations would have some level of respect for each other and knowledge that each verifies information prior to reporting “news.”
In recent years, though, that “someone else” has come to include social media.
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Zero-Based News
Part Eleven
One of the ways "news" becomes "news" is because of how news is gathered.
In some cases, people reporting the news seek out information to develop their news coverage.
In other cases, people reporting the news are provided with information that they use to develop their news coverage.
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Zero-Based News
Part Ten
Have you ever wondered how "news" becomes "news"?
The better way to frame that question is to ask who decides what is "news."
It may be one person – the assignment editor at a broadcast station, the managing editor at a newspaper, the owner of a digital news site, or someone else with a different title.
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Zero-Based News
Part Nine
Beyond businesses and private individuals that provide news to the American people, non-profit organizations also provide news to people in this country.
In some cases, that news coverage by some non-profit organizations is highly localized – to a city or town, to a county or county-equivalent, or to a region. Some non-profit organizations focus on news coverage for a state or commonwealth, while a few are national in their scope of news coverage.
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Zero-Based News
Part Eight
The ownership structures of those that provide news to the American people have changed – evolved – through the years.
In the United States of America today, those that provide news to the American people may or may not be entities steeped in the heritage of journalism.
While some private individuals with backgrounds in journalism still control individual entities within the news media, businesses – many structured in different forms, such as corporations – control much of what is provided as news.
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