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Tabloid Television and News Culture: Access and Representation

Tabloid Television and News Culture: Access and Representation. Erin Robinson & Andrew Wood. Project 180° (2008) 26 HBO 8–10p Award winning journalists Erin Robinson and Andrew Wood investigate the many sides of tabloid television and news culture (120 minutes).

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Tabloid Television and News Culture: Access and Representation

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  1. Tabloid Television and News Culture: Access and Representation Erin Robinson & Andrew Wood Project 180° (2008) 26 HBO 8–10p Award winning journalists Erin Robinson and Andrew Wood investigate the many sides of tabloid television and news culture (120 minutes) Project 180°: Tabloid Television & News Culture Wine & Cheese Fencing with Alex and Rob

  2. Follow the Road… • Tabloid Culture • Irreverent Coverage • Two Arguments • Storytelling

  3. Huey Lewis and the TV News • The word ‘tabloid’ has taken a derogatory turn for the worse • Think of ‘Television News’ as a cultural institution which produces meaning

  4. A WAKE FOR TELEVISION NEWS • The ‘Lament’ for Television Journalism • Television News is, and always will be, a business. • Television News is overly dependent on images • and sensationalism • TV News traffics in trivialities/ deals with • emotionalism

  5. THE CREATION OF TABLOID TV

  6. HIGH FLAMES & CRYING NUNS • Television has critically undermined the relationship • between democracy and its citizens • The ‘Lament’ argument fails to…

  7. The ‘Not-so-serious’ Serious News • Recognize television news as a form of cultural discourse • See how television news creates a ‘communicative power’ that can be used for ideological study

  8. Think of TV News as a ‘genre’ film • What has worked in the past, works today • Treat the TV News program as a ‘cultural text’ • It then becomes a cultural artifact

  9. Gratuitous Graph Shot No News Commercials Advertising Rules Who won the game? Cat in a Tree Economic Collapse of the United States Fluff &Human Interest News Summary Sports

  10. Start to Take Away These Points • The ‘Lament’ argument sees TV news in a decline, moving away from its informational model • It argues that TV News can be a ‘window to reality’ • TV news can also be seen as a ‘cultural discourse’ with a distinct communicative power • By acknowledging TV news as a ‘cultural artifact’, meaning is produced through its images. • This meaning leads to deeper latent messages concerning irreverent news.

  11. The Especially Remarkable Holding Power Powerless Elite Acting-as-he-never-does . . . Triumph The power of‘The’

  12. Victims & Tears

  13. Norm & Agent • Disruption of normal routines • Accounts & Witnesses • Newsmakers no longer narrators – merely • capturing the story • Overlapping points create emotional charge • Impact • Looking Backwards via remaining evidence, good • victims and images that trigger sympathetic • responses

  14. Communicative Power • Domination • Making your fate • Subordination • Subject to fate • Lived reality: • Physical, Psychological, Personal, Social and Economic

  15. This World is a Dangerous Place • Irreverent coverage ------ popular wisdom • Someone is always worse off…. • Who dares, wins. • Leave it alone • Stray bullet story • English channel swimming report

  16. Token YouTube Clips • Stray bullet story • English channel swimming report

  17. Questions • Do you see irreverent news stories as • important? Can they be seen as cultural • texts? • Why do we allow news to be pleasure-giving • versus informational?

  18. And now it’s time for …

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