Introduction to Mass Communication offers a survey that examines the many different mass media, including newspaper, magazine, radio, television, motion picture, book publishing, Internet and nomad digital media. It deals with the history and structure of the mass media industries, the production of our culture by the mass media, and its reception by the public.
The Arab Spring is reshaping TV news market and challenging channels such as Al Arabia and Al Jazeera because now people are aware of the political orientations of these channels and they know that the news they provide are biased. Audiences need to watch the news from new perspectives without feeling that they are being manipulated by the media. Indeed, these channels were under the control of authoritarian regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya... where these governments controlled totally the ideas that the media had to convey to the masses. With the Arab Spring, people do not want anymore to listen or to watch these channels because they know they have been fooled. The Arab Spring will definitely push the new channels that are created to become editorially more independent.
Kawtar, if you read the article, you would find out that the new Pan-Arab channels in preparation Alarab and Sky Arabia are nor Egyptian, nor Tunisian, nor Libian...
The Arab Spring is reshaping TV news market and challenging channels such as Al Arabia and Al Jazeera because now people are aware of the political orientations of these channels and they know that the news they provide are biased. Audiences need to watch the news from new perspectives without feeling that they are being manipulated by the media. Indeed, these channels were under the control of authoritarian regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya... where these governments controlled totally the ideas that the media had to convey to the masses. With the Arab Spring, people do not want anymore to listen or to watch these channels because they know they have been fooled. The Arab Spring will definitely push the new channels that are created to become editorially more independent.
ReplyDeleteKawtar, if you read the article, you would find out that the new Pan-Arab channels in preparation Alarab and Sky Arabia are nor Egyptian, nor Tunisian, nor Libian...
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