Tuesday, April 20, 2010

3 Roles in Electronic Media

Reporter

A reporters job in the news is to find something, some piece of news that matters and has some impact on the world. Find out a heap about it and a little more and present people with this on the news on TV or the radio and tell it in an unbiased way.

This being said, most journalists who inhabit this earth do not do their job.

Would it not be better to present people with accurate, relevant information and let them decide for themselves? Fox dosen't think so!

Anchorman/Anchorlady

The anchorman/ladies (lets call them anchorpeople) job is basically to sit at a really expensive desk, read the teleprompter, look happy and trustworthy. At most news stations anyway.

If your'e watching the news, your'e an everyday person and the anchorperson looks like a friend or they look like a really nice person or whatever your'e going to think "oh she reminds me of Kathy!"

A pack of horeshit lies, wrapped up in a flag and delivered to you with a smile.

Camera Operator

The COs job in the news is to capture events on film and to physically operate the camera. This is one of the most important jobs in the media because if you capture something on film, it can be used to show people what happened instead of just telling them.

Though what is captured on film can sometimes quite easily be manipulated and distorted to sway peoples opinion to support your own or someone elses.





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