Political+News


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 * **__Table of Contents__**
 * News
 * Forms of News
 * Political News
 * Early History Media and Political News
 * The power of news media on Political Issues
 * The sources of News
 * References ||


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__** http://www.televisionnewscenter.org/index.htm (This is a television news center picture taken from this website)

Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound (Wikipedia). Television offers a source a communication to the people by broadcasting news, documentaries, soap operas, music and so on. In this page, the discussion will be specifically about news.

(also see Television News Genre) - **International:** International news refers to news coverage of events on an internation context which would be of interest of other countries and localities. It distributes information on an international scope. [|**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_satire**]
 * __FORMS OF NEWS:__**
 * - Local:** Local News refers to news coverage of events in a local context which would not normally be of interest to theose of other localities or otherwise be of national or international scope.
 * - National:** National news is a form of news thats relation to a nation. The news in reference to all localities and not international.
 * - Regional:** Regional news is a form of news that is related to your region. For example, the different regions that are available would be North and South America, Middle East, Europe and so on.
 * - Objective:** Objective news present both sides of the story. Journalists are expected to cover the news objectively. That is the main ethics of being a journal, however, no individual could be 100% objective because facts are combined with personal interpretations and perceptions.
 * - Satirical:** Satirical News is a type of satire presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism. The goal of news satire is to make social commentary in a form that provides entertainment because news satire relies heavily on irony and deadpan human; it is occasionally mistaken for real news.

Currently, one of the most popular satirical news shows on television today is the Daily Show.** [|**Here is a link to some of their episodes**]
 * Popular Examples

First, we can start by giving a bried explanation of what is politics. Politics is the process by which groups (governmental issues) make decisions. (wikipedia) Political news is a broadcast that provides information that is concerned with governmental and a nations issue. The latest political news would be considered, The war in Iraq and Nuclear Weapons in Iran. These are international political news because they concern everyone.
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The oldest form of government was tribal organization. Rule by the elders was a monarchy, which usually had military conquest that had monarchies that existed for the past 5000 years.
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Political news is available in most of the news channels. But some of the channels are local news. The most common and popular sources of international political news are:The privelege is that most of these channels provide an online service that also allows the audience to access them online. -CNN: [|www.cnn.com] -BBC [|www.bbc.com] -AL JAZEERA: [|www.al-jazeera.com]


 * __Media and Political News:__**

The media is a form of communication between the broadcasters and the audience. Therefore, the main form of communication is usually within the political context. The politcal context demostrates what is going on worldwide politically. In other words, who is the president, the development of the war issues and so on. These are worldwide concerns that take place, becuase usually its a trap that everything else follow. But the main problem that we encounter in political news is that most of the information is bias and one sided. The journalists ethics of objectivity and fairness is the essence of their career. Their main objectives should be presenting fairness to those concerned with the news and accuracy. But these ethics are not always pertained. Therefore, some of the journalists rely on what they heard or what is wanted to be distributed.

Therefore, it is simple and easy to give the audience inaccurate information, especially politically. The sources of information could be relied on one main source that is inaccurate. (And that occurs in most of the cases). Most of the viewers just rely on the news channels that they have and ignore attempting to go for other sources (that are different) for checking different perspectives. Therefore, we can claim that sometimes political news could be one sided, which is also a form of inaccuracy, because it is not displaying to their audience the full picture.


 * __The power of news media on Political Issues:__**

The news media has a great influence on the audience in terms of persuasion. The value of the news medium is the focus on its audience: its size, its political and social status, and its level of political power. That is the major goal, to communicate with the largest and most important audience possible. (Wolfseld, Media and political conflict, pg 58) The political power is determined through how well they convince or persuade their viewers of the information that they are stating. The objective is to convince the audience knowing that most of them rely on this service. In such cases, most of the audience can not refer to any other source of media that is outside their country. If the information gathered is western, it will not change. It will demonstrate the western (one side) story or perspective. Politics is a very sensitive issue and concerns every one because it involves regulations and governmental interefernces in some cases.


 * __The sources of News:__**

The examples that were mentioned above were CNN, BBC and Al-Jazeera. CNN and BBC share common perspectives regarding the political issues while usually AL-Jazeera has a different perspective. That is due to the fact that usually every nation carry their own side of the story. But in this case, it is educational for the audience to be able to compare information and build and construct their own perspectives or judgments regarding the political issues, rather than being manipulated into thoughts and perspectives that were built through the media.


 * __References:__**

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics -"useful websites" //A Dictionary of Contemporary World History//. Jan Palmowski. Oxford University Press, 2003. //Oxford Reference Online//. Oxford University Press. University of Toronto Libraries. 9 December 2006  - Gadi Wolfsfed: //Media and Political conflict: News from the middle east//. Cambridge University Press 1997