NDM STORIES INDEX

NDM STORIES INDEX

1. 17/09/2015: Social Media Is Harming The Mental Health Of Teenagers.
2. 17/09/2015: Is It Safe To Turn Your Children Into YouTube Stars?
3. 27/09/2015: It’s time the media treated Muslims fairly
4. 27/09/2015: BBC apologises after suggesting partially deaf Tory MP had fallen asleep
5. 1/10/15: Netflix Create The "Netflix & Chill Button"
6. 1/10/15: UK mobile ad spend 'to overtake print and TV'
7. 8/10/15: The Great British Bake Off final gets biggest TV audience of the year
8. 8/10/15: Rupert Murdoch sorry for suggesting Obama isn't a ‘real black president’
9. 16/10/15: Sun website traffic slips by 14%
10. 16/10/15: Harrowing film recorded from inside the car reveals the last minutes of drug-drive friends who sped through the countryside at 90mph before crashing into a church and dying
11. 06/11/15: Ofcom is not currently equipped to regulate BBC, says trust director
12. 06/11/15: Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 campaign verdict – is Call of Duty devouring itself?
13. 06/11/15 Facebook ads are about to get even more personal
14. 06/11/15 Playing video games doesn’t make you a better person. But that’s not the point
15. 06/11/15 Newspapers go on the hunt for a safe place to pay
16. 06/11/15 Can dropping the paywall and upping the story count boost Sun’s website?
17. 13/11/15 Sun website traffic recovers as Mirror slips back
18. 13/11/15 Why the Daily Mirror pulled its exclusive story on The Voice
19. 03/12/15 Is mobile making media all the same?
20. 07/12/15 Daily News: The News Says He's A Terrorist, But So Are These Guys...
21. 07/12/15 BBC3 TV channel to be switched off by February, BBC Trust confirms
22. 11/12/15 Just how big is Apple?
23. 11/12/15 Can broadcast TV match streaming’s big budget shows?
24. 14/12/15 Thinking machines: the skilled jobs that could be taken over by robots
25. 14/12/15 Why the Paris attacks got larger UK coverage than other tragedies
26. 14/12/15 YouTube tipped to strike licensing deals for TV shows and films
27. 14/12/15 Rise in UK web users blocking ads, research finds
28. 14/12/15 BBC to confirm it will extend 10pm news by 10 minutes
29. 14/12/15 What are Facebook and other social media doing about Donald Trump?
30. 14/12/15 Facebook rolls out live streaming video service

Thinking machines: the skilled jobs that could be taken over by robots

Machines cannot disrupt the world of art and music, where creativity flows direct from the soul, right? But if that is the case, then how did Tupac perform at the Coachella festival in 2012 – 16 years after his murder in Las Vegas? By way of a hologram, of course.

The rapper’s hologram was one of the most prominent examples of technology undercutting artists and performers, but it was by no means the first. Generative art, for instance, pushes the work of creation back a step. No longer are artists creating a specific music or painting: instead, they make a bot that can endlessly create, outproducing any human artist.

The notion of pilotless commercial airplanes would be horrific for most passengers and that is the main reason why we will not be seeing passenger-only excursions to Magaluf any time soon. But it is feasible. Any modern Airbus or Boeing aircraft can already be landed in thick fog without a pilot, while the advent of military drones underscores how pilotless flight has entered the geo-political mainstream. Will it enter the realm of commercial travel? Passengers, and of course regulators, are the main barrier.

Why the Paris attacks got larger UK coverage than other tragedies

They have pointed to the fact that last Thursday, 44 people died in suicide bombings in Beirut. In August, 67 people were killed by a truck bomb in Sadr City in north-eastern Iraq. In April, 147 people, most of them students, were shot dead at Garissa University in north-eastern Kenya.

All of these horrific incidents were reported by the British media. But they didn’t get much more than a newspaper headline and a couple of minutes on TV and radio bulletins.

Although the downing of the Russian plane in Sinai, in which 224 people perished, got a reasonable show in papers and on TV, neither it nor the other tragedies received the wall-to-wall coverage granted to the Paris attacks.

YouTube tipped to strike licensing deals for TV shows and films

YouTube is preparing to strike deals with Hollywood studios and television firms to bring films and TV shows to its YouTube Red subscription service.

The online video service is keen for its $9.99-a-month service to compete more directly with rivals such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, according to the Wall Street Journal.Its report suggests that YouTube is in the “early stages” of these talks, but that it hopes to commission original shows and films rather than simply license existing content.

Rise in UK web users blocking ads, research finds

More than 1.3m people have adopted technology that blocks online ads since June, with young people more likely to turn off intrusive pop-ups and videos

Though the rise is modest, it suggests dissatisfaction with ads is growing, especially among the young, with 35% of 18- to 24-year-olds saying they blocked ads, compared to just 15% of over 55s.

Though most of the coverage of ad blocking has focused on mobile devices, few are blocking ads on their smartphones: 4.1% now compared to 2.9% in June. Just 23% of people using ad blockers do so on their smartphones, compared to 71% who say they block ads on a laptop.

BBC to confirm it will extend 10pm news by 10 minutes

The BBC is to extend its 10pm news programme by 10 minutes, beginning in January, in a move which will increase regional and national news in its flagship bulletin.

The longer bulletin, which will run from Monday to Thursday, comes after a five-month trial in the run-up to the general election which proved popular with viewers, according to the BBC.

“Through research, our audience has told us that they want more from our evening news service. The format we first tried before the election allows audiences to see more regional stories and gives us the opportunity to get under the skin of the issues alongside content that reflects arts and culture in different parts of the UK.”

This hsows how social media and online news has not only created a decline in newspapers but also starting to kill TV news broadcasts.

What are Facebook and other social media doing about Donald Trump?

The US woke up on Friday to the news that Donald Trump was a full 20 percentage points ahead of Ted Cruz, his nearest rival, for the Republican nomination, and a good 16 percentage points higher than America’s top political analysts thought he would be.

Running on a platform of “making America great again”, his campaign has been noteworthy for Trump’s egregious widespread insults and total fabrications, on a gargantuan scale. The most recent of which was him claiming to have seen “thousands of Muslims” dancing in the streets of New Jersey after 9/11. No evidence exists of this, because it never happened.

Donald Trump has so far spent a mere $217,000 on broadcast advertising, compared to the eye-watering $28.9m spent by Jeb Bush, currently languishing at 3% of the poll compared with Trump’s 36%. Trump is allowing the evolved ecology of TV coverage and the new power of the social web do the work for him, live tweeting along the way.

When it is possible to remove all traces of a campaign claim which is completely untrue, and demonstrably so, by building verifiability into the algorithm, will social platforms and search engines go ahead and do it? 

What he meant was, should reporters report something even if they know it to be false?

Facebook rolls out live streaming video service

Facebook has begun rolling out a new feature on its social network which allows users to stream live video.

A select group of celebrities and high profile users have been able to use the service for several months.
Live streaming via mobile phones has become one of the big technology trends of the year, with Twitter-owned Periscope and Meerkat proving popular.
Last year, Amazon paid $1bn for live streaming game site Twitch.
Initially Facebook's live video feature will be available only to a small percentage of people in the US and will be limited to iPhones.
The tech giant said that "over time, the company plans to bring it to all users" but it did not give specific timescales.

NDM News Index:

1) Institution: the impact of Google on the newspaper industry
2) Audience and Institution: how news consumption has changed
3) The future of newspapers: Build The Wall analysis
4) The decline of newspapers: the effect of online technology
5) Citizen journalism: Media Magazine article and questions
6) News Values: theory and updating them for digital media landcape
7) Marxism & Pluralism: Media Magazine article and questions
8) Media Conference: notes from speakers
9) Marxism and Pluralism: views and values question
10) NDM Section B essay on blog - consumption and production question
11) Marxism and Pluralism: Alain de Botton on the news - lecture and questions
12) Globalisation: questions and blog task
13) Globalisation: Media Magazine - Google Glass, techno-panics and data mining
14) News on the Tweet report and questions
15) Audience and Institution article and questions
16) Institution case study: NDM and News Corporation

NDM: The key concepts of audience and institution

1) What was the relationship between audience and institution in the pre-digital age?
"In the past, this relationship was seen as a power relationship, where most of the power was in the hands of the institutions. This model was based on the idea that the audience was passive and received information from powerful institutions."

2) The article gives a lot of examples of major media institutions. Choose three examples from the article and summarise what the writer is saying about each of them.
Google, Netflix, Facebook.
Google now owns youtube, Netflix now produces its own TV shows & facebook bought oculus rift. Shows how these mass companies are continuing to expand and adapt making them much more globalised, it suggests that we will be consuming media from a smaller variety of institutions.
3) The article ends with a section on the digital age. Summarise this section in 50 words.
The article suggests how organisations have to adapt to survive, they are finding more and more creative ways to stay in the market but to also attract more audiences.survive. "It is clear that not all traditional media forms, outlets or institutions will be able to maintain their place in the media marketplace. As audiences reject traditional TV programming, newspapers and cinema exhibition."

4) How do YOU see the relationship between audience and institution in the future? Will audiences gain increasing power or will the major global media institutions hold sway?
I believe that institutions will always be most dominant between the relationship with audiences. As these companies start to become more and more wealthier, smaller companies on the rise give in as these big companies will buy them outright. I believe this will continue to happen in the future as companies like Google, Facebook & Apple are far too powerful in the industry.

Can broadcast TV match streaming’s big budget shows?

Netflix and Amazon can focus on blockbusters but others have schedules to fill.

“We have to provide something that is not normal telly – something that is going to surprise and delight our customers, and very often it’s different because it’s bigger,” says Chris Bird, film and TV strategy director for Amazon Video UK.

This article shows how new and digital media such as netflix and TV streaming has taken over TV as a whole. This is because they are making their own TV shows, which are different and unique. This is due to the high budgets they are spending on these TV shows, something broadcast tv isn't doing. This means that more and more TV viewers may be switching to Tv streaming as they are able to get exclusive, brand new TV shows that are actually very good. Good examples would be Narcos, House Of Cards & Better Call Saul.

Just how big is Apple?

How much cash has Apple got?

It had $194bn in cash reserves as of March 2015

How many iPhones does it sell?

It sold 47.5 million iPhones in the three months to June 27, 2015

What about iPads?

It sold 10.9 million iPads in the same period, down 18pc on the year before

How important is China to Apple?

Apple sales were worth $13.23bn in China in the second quarter of 2014-5

Does it still sell Macs?

Indeed, it does: 4.6 million of them in Q2 2015

Apple sales breakdown:

70%: iPhone

10%: Macs

9% iPad

9% services (such as iTunes)

2%: other products (iPod, Watch)

This table shows just how much people are continuing to grow into the new and digital era. Smartphones are now becoming a norm, this means loads more people are likely to become users of social media. Also, it shows how strong globalisation is, Apple sell so many iPhone that it is one of the leading smartphones on the market, if everyone has one it limits peoples choices down.

NDM case study: News on the Tweet

Why are respected news brands good news for Twitter?

Respected news brands are good news for twitter as many people search for breaking news via twitter, so if they wanted to find out about genuine, real news, trusted news brands like the BBC will only publish verified stories.

Why in turn is Twitter good for respected news brands?

As twitter connects everyone together, it allows for followers of these news brands to interact with institutions and allows intuitions to interact with their followers. It also allows for much more web hits as twitter only allows for 140 characters, meaning if users are intrigued in a story, they will have to click on the full article.

The report suggests that old and new media “are not, in fact, in direct competition, but often work extremely well together to enhance both the media eco-system and the consumer experience”. What evidence do they provide to support this idea? Do you agree with it?

The report says that newsbrand followers believe that twitter has allowed them to interact with news brands like never before, this means that twitter and the internet has helped traditional news as followers are more likely to read stories they may not have read in print, online.

On page 24/25 of the report, the focus turns to 'gossip' or 'banter'. What example tweets from journalists are used to illustrate this? 

Do you think the increasing amount of 'gossip' or 'banter' is harming the reputation of news and journalists?
This section adds some comedy and entertainment for news, it shows how news is evolving and adapting to new and digital media. They are aiming to get as much readers as possible, so by adding this section of tweets, it can bring a new audience. 

What does the report say about trust in Twitter and journalists (look at pages 34-39)?

62% of twitter users voted that news brands are the most trusted accounts when looking for news, they may not believe what other people have posted. Also, 69% of people voted that twitter has allowed viewers to interact with journalists like never before.

Finally, do you think new and digital media developments such as Twitter have had a positive or negative impact on traditional newspapers?
I think that twitter has still given a negative affect on traditional newspapers, this is because everyone has switched to new and digital media and traditional newspapers aren't making as much revenue.

BBC3 TV channel to be switched off by February, BBC Trust confirms

Corporation’s governing body rubber-stamps decision to move youth-oriented channel on line, but calls for more youth programming on BBC1 and BBC2

This article discusses how a popular youth channel, BBC Three is being shutdown and transformed to an online only show. The channel aired programmes like; Dont Tell The Bride, Family Guy, Top Gear, American Dad etc. This bites into new and digital media as the youth may not have time to watch TV any more, they are more likely to spend they're free time online, socialising with friends. Also, a high number of youth tend to watch theyre TV on their laptops, phones and tablets due to services like catch up TV and Netflix, therefore BBC three moving on-line could be a good move. This shows how large institutions are evolving to changes by new and digital media.

Daily News: The News Says He's A Terrorist, But So Are These Guys...

This front cover is important as its one of the first to give in to the amount of propaganda the news industry offers, it takes a different approach that other news outlets do as they put the word terrorist and Islam together with ease, but when someone that isn't Muslim or even Asian / middle eastern, they somehow suffer from mental health. News institutions are the ones that created islamophobia and have played a major role in getting people to believe in this. This article provided by the Daily News finally takes a different approach, this proves how the affect of cyber protesting on-line can change the way in which news create news, hopefully other will change.

MM47: Google Glass

1) Why was Google Glass controversial?
As moral panics started stirring up as the feature of being able to record what you see and share live instantly can allow for people to record other people without permission and in a way where people may not even know that they're being recorded. This can cause a problem with privacy and personal space. Secondly, it is possible that google may be able to see what we see, for example they could analyse what we look for in a supermarket & what we dont, then sending a bunch of marketing towards us.
2) What are the positive elements to Globalisation that the article highlights?
That google are able to connect people online & are growing to get more and more people access to the internet. Google? In a sense the world becomes more accessible, and people are enriched by getting to know and understand it better. Increased choice and opportunities empower people, while access to information can enhance not only the ability to make informed decisions but even the democratic process.

3) What are potential negatives to Globalisation?
Smaller companies have little, or no hope of making an impact on in the market as they wont be able to compete. This means that are choice is very limited by a limited number of companies who dominate the global market, and, in the main, only distribute the majority of the world’s wealth amongst themselves. Google is 15 featured on the FT500 list, eight out of the top ten of these are American owned.

4) What is a techno-panic? How does it link to moral panics?
A techno-panic is therefore a moral panic that centres on fears regarding specific contemporary technology or technological activity. Questions are forming that ask whether Google glass will begin to make people less engaged in conversations. This is because people may not know whether someone wearing glass will be paying attention to what is going on around them, it could be like trying to  talk to someone with headphones in.

5) What is your opinion on the privacy debate and major corporations being able to access large quantities of personal data?
I think that as corporations like Google still continue to grow and grow, it makes it a lot easier for us to grow our carbon footprint. This means that Google is more able to access our data and personal information, and in most cases, we never check long pages of terms and conditions so we may never know what Google do with this information. They can easily find out what we search, shop for, upload, email and even where we are going because of Google maps. In some cases, it may just be a moral panic due to conspiracy theories, but i guess we'll never know.

Is mobile making media all the same?

"As phones grow to become an overwhelming majority of traffic, content has become increasingly aimed at playing the numbers game"

The internet was meant to be an amazing engine for invention and diversification in media. With the barriers to entry toppling, anybody could become a publisher, and, thanks to the blog revolution, thousands of people did. In the mid-2000s, especially, the dream of web-based nanopublishing was alive and well: if “freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one,” as AJ Liebling famously said, then suddenly hundreds of millions of people had a printing press at their fingertips. Arianna Huffington, and her investors, made a small fortune from aggregating what those people had to say: “self expression is the new entertainment,” she said, and she wasn’t wrong. And then came smartphones. 

NDM case study: Globalisation

1) Is our news influenced by American cultural imperialism? What examples can you think of?
In a way, yes our news is being influenced by American culture. Although we aren't fully there yet. Some examples would be how the BBC published a story on a viral video which was entirely entertainment, another example would also be how the BBC prioritise the royal family first even though the story isn't as important as other events going on. Something like America does with the Kardashians etc.
2) Has the increased globalisation of news improved the audience experience? How? Why?
Yes, now that there is much news available it has made it easier and quicker for us to access news. It allows us to find out news live as it happens and keeps us connected with the world. One example would be the Paris attacks and how witness footage from smartphones made us feel like we are there.  

3) Has globalisation benefited or damaged major news institutions? How? Why?
Yes it has, its now a much more competitive market and there is so much news to choose from. Organisations must keep alert and be the first to publish stories to survive to gain attention, they must also try and keep unique in order to keep themselves in the market.

Marxism & Pluralism: Alain de Botton on the news

Answer the following questions on your blog:

1) To what extent do you agree with Alain de Botton's views on the News?
I  believe with Alains point that the news only prioritises news that will catch audiences attention. That maybe much more less important news such as celebrities etc will be the front and main news and that the more important but very boring news will be at the back. It shows how news has turned into a marketing strategy to keep it running.

2) How can you link Marxism and Hegemony to de Botton's criticisms of the News?
This links to Marxism as news industries are controlled via the elite and that they showcase more of the elite people as a appose to less fortunate people. News will showcase something bad that has happened to a celebrity but wont bother to cover news on starvation of kids or the amount of innocent deaths due to war.

3) How could you use Pluralism and new technology to challenge de Botton's views on the News?
Alains views of a classless society show that now, everyone holds a smartphone. We can access news quicker and easier ever than before. We can now also become a reporter due to citizen journalism and platforms such as blogs, youtube, twitter and so on have allowed us to express our opinions and views more than ever before.


4) Choose two news stories from the last six months - one that supports de Botton's views and one that challenges his belief that the News is used for social control.

The development of new/digital media means the audience is more powerful in terms of consumption and production. Discuss the arguments for and against this view.

In recent years, new and digital media has grown rapidly year after year. New technology and the internet has made us, as the audience more powerful in terms of consumption and production. New and digital media such as social media has allowed for us to be more connected but it does have its affects, it has deeply affected newspapers as we have now become reporters and journalists ourselves. This essay will discuss how production and consumption has been affected by new and digital media.

Firstly, Pluralists argue that we live in a classless society and that media organisations are responsive to an audience and are economically determined. They believe that there is a market in the media, and without the audience organisations wouldn't be able to run or survive. They believe that we make good media. Pluralists would believe that we are now more powerful in terms of consumption and production. We have many new platforms to express our opinions on and now have the ability to widen our views due to the vast amount of content online. The development of new and digital media has allowed us to engage with media texts and have also given us the ability to challenge and manipulate the media. Audiences can now conform, accommodate or reject media oppressed by the elite. This proves that we are more powerful than before when it comes down to how we consume and produce media, we can challenge and argue with the elite media and how they can manipulate the masses. Pluralists challenge the hypodermic needle theory. One example would be with the devastating terrorist attacks in Paris. The media have always linked the word terrorists with the religion of islam. If it wasn't for the negative ideologies that the media portray on muslims, there wouldn't be such a thing as Islamophobia. In the recent attacks, media outlets tried to convince mass audiences that muslims believe in killing the innocent, but they're wrong. Now, audiences challenge this view that media outlets inject into us. There was a social outburst online with protests that every religion doesn't believe in killing the innocent and that islams are not to blame. Audiences can now choose what to believe as reality can hit them much harder as new and digital media "has allowed for us to be connected together" Bill Thompson - Technology Expert  Also, Rupert Murdoch has once said that "The internet has given readers much more power... The world is changing and newspapers have to adapt."

Secondly, a Marxist doesn't believe in a Pluralists view and that this "Information Revolution" hasn't given any audiences power at all. This is because they believe that the media are the elite and that the mass media are a tool used by ruling bodies to maintain hegemonic control over the masses and a divided class society. Marxist believe that the ruling class can control what we find "normal" and whats okay in society. Lin & Webster claim that "57% of 9 - 19 year olds never question the accuracy of online information." This shows how the youth will believe any information they may read online through media organisations. Google is now the end to a debate for the youth. Marxists also believe that "Web pages and blogs are like a million monkeys typing nonsense" - Andrew Keen This links to how the Jan Moir from Mail Online's tabloid print edition wrote a homophobic article on the death of Stephen Gately in 2009. This received a social protest online on Twitter and Facebook but the Mail Online didn't make any editorial decisions, they kept their views intact and didn't change the way gate keeping was taking place within the newspaper.

Also, the newspaper industry has had a big decline in the recent years, because of the rise of new and digital media. One of the biggest cases is that traditional, print news papers have been falling in terms of making its revenue as "by the end of next year mobile advertising will account for half of the £8.94bn that will be spent on digital marketing in the UK." This shows how companies and organisations are spending a lot more money on digital marketing compared to traditional print papers. This is because of new technology shifting audiences to reading news on line compared to paper. One of the reasons why news industries don't make as much revenue is because of the mistake they made during the prime time growing years of the internet. They believed that by posting their news online for free will make people buy the paper as well. This obviously didn't work out as everyone read news online but didn't even bother reading newspapers, why would they pay if it was free online?

As Pluralists believe that we can challenge the media and form our own views, new and digital media has allowed for us to become more powerful in terms or producing media. Now, we can become a reporter, journalist or even a news crew... all from one device. Citizen journalism has become so important and vital for how genuine a news story can be. Due to the rise of social media and technology almost everyone carries a fully functional video camera in their pocket due to smartphones. They can also instantly share these videos to millions of people with a click of a button. One key example of this would be with the amount of police shootings and brutality exposed in america. This has been a on going racial subject for years. But now, witnesses are able to expose corrupt police officers due to new and digital media. The death of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and many more have been recorded by witnesses, shared online and was able to create very large protests in the USA. It allowed audiences to conform and question the us government and also reject news institutions such as CNN as they tend to be with the police in this horrific cases. "Rebellion is encapsulated in the internet" - Keen. 

Overall, the media has always been able to manipulate the mass audience for years, what ever the elite media groups produce for us, we will tend to believe and become brainwashed to what they say. The media is what will always keep us informed and entertained. Its the first tool we go to in order for us to find out whats going on in the world, but its the way in which these stories are written and who they're written by which can change the way we think and feel. Marxists have a solid view on the media and how the elite can control us, in a way i feel that they are correct and are able to brainwash the mass audience with what they believe. Although now, new and digital media is allowing us to become more and more against the elite. We can challenge these views like never before and we can even create our own news. Making us much more powerful. We also have a wider variety of news and can believe in what we want to see and consume. Now, organisations such as Vice produce realistic and hardcore news. Its almost like citizen journalism.They're news footage is simply cameras on the scene of an event showcasing whats going on. No commentaries, no interviews, no editing, just footage. Making us feel like we are there. New and digital media has allowed for this as we can upload what we wish. Before the outburst of new and digital media it would be unacceptable for institutions to publish simple camera footage of an event. Now, its necessary for us to believe in whats going on.

Developments in new/digital media mean that audiences can now have access to a greater variety of views and values. To what extent are audiences empowered by these developments?

Audiences now have a greater variety of views and values, this is because of the internet and how pluralists believe that we live in a classless society, also how we have much more freedom and are able to rebel against co operations and governments, although this can have a downside as it can affect the news we get as a whole. Marxisists believe that the elite control bodies and are able to control our views, in a sense this is true as recent studies show that newspapers have helped the general election. Also how "top 5% of all websites accounted for almost 75% of user volume" (Lin & Webster, 2002) Also, marxisists believe that the internet is dumbing us down and that  its like a million monkeys typing nonsense. 

I still believe that the internet will also have a minority of media producers that will serve the mass media, controlling views. Although at the same time I agree with the fact that pluralists are able to argue with the media very well, for example with the recent Paris terrorist attacks, new and digital media such as social media has proved that the Internet has allowed for a much more easier and vital way to express opinions and feelings. 

The Islam community has always had a negative effect in the media, showing that the elite are able to create a propaganda and are able to control our views on Muslims, although now, many of us know that this is the case, and there was a social outburst on Twitter, many people Muslim and non Muslim tweeted negatively towards the media how unfairly they treat religions. Many tweets were published explaining how no religion intends to kill innocent people and that everyone is equal. This was a prime example of how new and digital media has allowed us to challenge the elites views in media & that more and more people may be becoming pluralists because of this. Its also proving that Marxists may be the ones that are dumbing down because they're tactics to control the media just aren't working well enough.

Why the Daily Mirror pulled its exclusive story on The Voice

Paper was given incorrect information about the BBC hanging on to the show

In that posting I took the Mirror’s TV editor, Nicola Methven, to task for having written a story headlined “BBC axes The Voice in £55m row.” It was her paper’s splash in the first edition but vanished after that.

 “got it hopelessly wrong”

“They have given up on screening a sixth run in 2017, leaving the door open for rivals ITV to snap up the show, which pulls in 8m viewers.”

A journalist was lied to and was given false information when writing up a headline for the daily mirror news paper, the information she published was hopelessly wrong and lead viewers to having false assumptions. This shows how new and digital media can lead to hoax information and can cause bad press, this can always ruin the representation for the daily mirror.

Sun website traffic recovers as Mirror slips back

News UK site boosted by 16% rise to 1.29 million daily unique browsers in October, as rival’s national titles fall by 4.9% to 3.7 million

"The Sun website bounced back in October, adding more than 180,000 daily unique browsers to take its total to 1.29 million."

"increase of more than 16% after a 14% fall in September"

"The Sun remains one of the smaller national newspaper websites after two years of charging for online access."

"The Guardian was down by 2.6% to 8.15 million daily unique browsers following a record month in September."

MailOnline 13,246,053 (-0.89)
theguardian.com 8,153,603 (-2.59)
Telegraph 4,285,687 (-3.03) 
Mirror Group nationals 3,702,001 (-4.93)
The Independent 2,634,560 (-5.25)
The Sun 1,286,605 (16.03)
express.co.uk 1,209,801 (-0.27) 
Metro 1,159,637 (25.29) 
dailystar.co.uk 623,977 (9.35)