Ok. So the second term has been slow to start off with the blogging, sorry to… well… me I imagine I’m the only one reading this, apart from of course my dedicated followers – the bots, big shout out to all those who send spam, it doesn’t go unnoticed.
We’ll start off with the first week because it seems logical. The lecture outlined what we’re going to be doing this term, our assignment will be looking at two different media artefacts covering the same story. An early idea I’ve had of interest is the phone hacking scandal being propagated in the Guardian and perhaps the Daily Mail or the Sun.
As practice for this exercise the class looked at how Nick Davies’ Flat Earth News was reviewed across a number of different platforms. One outlet we looked at was a post on the Guardian Online ‘The fourth estate failures’ and Journalism.co.uk’s discussion on the unwritten 11th chapter.
One thing that was clear from the ‘fourth estate’ write-up was respect, but as much of the book criticised the media including the Guardian, which Davies had once written for, there were many paragraphs defending the newspaper. The book also made noted criticisms of the Daily Mail and Paul Dacre. The reviewer had previously worked for Dacre and although she did speak for him in defence, it was limited to a few lines. The allegiance for the reviewer had to lie with her current employer.
This idea generated interesting discussion that led in to next week’s seminar.
A Journalist's look at the media 
Really enjoyed this article post. Really Great.