News unit Introduction
NEWS
The purpose of news is to show information to the public concerning people in things in local and public areas.
inform
educate
entertain
profit
influence/persuade
Newspapers are not PSB(like the BBC) they are commercial publications. over three quarters (77.8%) of the British press is owned by a handful of billionaires. Over a quarter (27.3 per cent) of the press is owned by Lord Rothermere and 24.9 per cent by Rupert Murdoch-between them there two men have over 50 per cent of the printed press.
Fake NEWS:
this is the first ever fake news that was published on the news during the first world war..
COTTINGLY FAIRIES
War of the world(Orson Welles)
October 30th 1938
"The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It was performed and broadcast live as a Halloween episode at 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 30, 1938, over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. The episode became famous for allegedly causing panic among its listening audience, though the scale of that panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS:
This News is half fake and real and this has caused many people in confusion.
The purpose of news is to show information to the public concerning people in things in local and public areas.
inform
educate
entertain
profit
influence/persuade
Newspapers are not PSB(like the BBC) they are commercial publications. over three quarters (77.8%) of the British press is owned by a handful of billionaires. Over a quarter (27.3 per cent) of the press is owned by Lord Rothermere and 24.9 per cent by Rupert Murdoch-between them there two men have over 50 per cent of the printed press.
Fake NEWS:
this is the first ever fake news that was published on the news during the first world war..
COTTINGLY FAIRIES
War of the world(Orson Welles)
October 30th 1938
"The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It was performed and broadcast live as a Halloween episode at 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 30, 1938, over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. The episode became famous for allegedly causing panic among its listening audience, though the scale of that panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS:
Flooding turned downtown Houston into an underwater ghost town Friday as rescuers scrambled to save stranded drivers and those stuck in their homes following the wild, three-day downpour, according to reports.
This News is half fake and real and this has caused many people in confusion.
"Boris Johnson is to inject £1.8billion into the NHS as part of his pledge to upgrade 20 hospitals across the country, it has emerged.
The new prime minister has used a boost in health funding as part of an attempt to build a domestic agenda beyond Brexit, with his team well aware that they could be forced into an election this year. But experts have already warned that the fund may not be enough even to cover the upgrades Johnson has already promised."
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