Media Institutions
Blog Post #20
A media institution is a company that owns large amount of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies and the internet. Media institutions strive for policies that facilitate their control of the markets around the world.
Current media institutions:
21st Century Fox: 21st century fox is an American multinational mass media cooperation. It is one of two companies which succeeded News Corporation (as found by Rupert Murdoch in 1979) After its split in June 2013; 21st Century Fox retains the previous News Corporation's broadcasting and film assets and serves as its legal successor.
BBC: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcasting statutory corporation, the BBC is the worlds oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world in terms of employees as it consists of 23,000 staff members. The BBC is headquartered at broadcasting house in London and has major production centres across the United Kingdom.
What are the advantages of media institutions (promoting own products through sister companies etc). What are the disadvantages - lack of alternative information, potential political bias eg News Corp - explore this topic further as it will be the basis to section B of your exam.
ReplyDeleteOVERALL FEEDBACK - I can feel from the slight slowing down of your blog work - keep up and finish rest of posts - that you are really keen to get making - Its about three more lessons to go so do a really good push to make your blog hold a potential 'A' grade and get some more media on here (soundcloud, tumblr, prezi etc). Much more independent work happening over this next half term