Tabliod Journalism
When exploring the article Tabloid Television by Catherine Lumby and John O’Neil the overall main debate in the article was that traditional tabloid quality categorisation of the current affairs television programs should be abandoned in favour of an across-the-board analysis of the impact of competition and new technologies on the formats of those programs. In other words; Lumby and O’Neil believe, in between a televisual world where divisions of public and private spaces and news and entertainment were starkly delineated, and one in which those boundaries are now collapsing. The article seeks to illustrate how and why this has happened by tracing the history of a boom in television programming which began in the United States in the mid 1970’s and its ultimate impact on television journalism in Australia.Furthermore the article can be broken down into components topics of the following, which I will be discussing separately, then inviting you to debate: Ø The ethics of Tabloid Journalism. Ø Is Australia just the next America? And, What all this says about our current western society. Well
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Lumby O’Neil, Beacon Schmitz, Ethics Australia, Vs Entertainment, Royal Commission, Talk Soup, Jenny Jones, Wealthy Wise’, Current Affairs’, Recently Murdoch, tabloid television, tabloid journalism, secret admirer, jenny jones, ‘a current affairs’, individual individuals, diet story, trauma grief, current affairs, lumby o’neil, ‘a current, secret admirer woman,
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Approximate Word count = 1769
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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