Mass Media

Essay Questions:

1. 1.     Why is reality TV popular? What are the characteristics? Give examples.

• They are real people & deal with the real life issues.. And  situations reflecting reality to some extend..
• Entertaining
• It does generate huge income for producers and so on..
• It doesn’t cost a lot of money for TV channels to produce a reality TV.

2. Define a pressure group and what does it do. Give examples.

• Voluntary groups not governmental.
• They influence policy making bodies to serve the public. They can do a very good job in watchdogging for society.
• There are three types of pressure groups.. one of them is promotional they make public aware about specific issue: ex: Green peace organization in the UK ( environmental groups) Recycling culture.. this is for the example.

1. 3.     Can the media be objective? Why?

• Can we achieve objectivity or truthful journalism?
• What’s truth and what is objectivity is pretty much relevant?
• To Aljazeera truth is something to BBC and CNN truth is slightly different?
• Can we achieve objectivity or truth journalism?