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Media Examples
Media Stats and Examples
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| In 2017, the top 7 companies owned over 95% of the newspaper circulation. In 2019, 3 companies owned over 83%: Reach, News UK and DMG Media. In 2021 90% was owned by these 3 companies |
| 71% of audiences consume news through new media |
| 96% of consume some form of news regularly |
| 70% of audiences consume news through Television |
| 13% of audiences consume news using physical Daily Mail newspaper |
| The Levenson Inquiry revealed owners often trade support for politicians in their newspapers for passing policies that support journalism |
| 9/11 prominently features audience footage of the twin tower attack |
| The phrase 'citizen journalism' first used to describe footage taken of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami |
| The 2011 Levenson Inquiry showed that News Of The World had used phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising 'improper influence' in the pursuit of stories. This led to the government setting up the Independent Press Standards Organisation |
| During the 80's miners strikes, striking miners were shown, but never the negative conditions they worked in |
| During the 2008 banking crisis the media would only ever interview bankers and politicians about ways to solve the crisis |
| During the 2008 banking crisis, the Sun shifted the conversation away from 'scumbag billionaires' to 'welfare scroungers' as the cause of the crisis |
| During the 80's miner strikes, cameras shot rom the polices point of view, not the strikers, to show the miners as aggressive attackers |
| Women are 4x more likely to be referred to by their family status compared to men in news stories, and questioned on their relationships and their family |
| In major news papers up to 80% of news stories were straight from second hand sources, rather than independent investigative journalism |
| According to the GMG, the year after miners strikes, audiences were interviews, those with miner friends/family believed that the police were the aggressors, whilst those who didn't know any miners believed that the miners were the aggressors |
| The Gulf War did not take place |
| 16 - 24 year olds are more likely to use the internet through a smart phone, rather than a desktop computer, and consume news through the internet rather than TV or newspapers |
| Middle and upper classes are more likely to use LinkedIn, whilst working classes are more likely to use Facebook and Twitter |
| Twitter banned democratically elected Donald Trump after complaints of election fraud |
| Facebook blocked references to 'stop the steal' during the 2020 USA election |
| Amazon removed Parler, a 'free speech' alternative to twitter promoted by Donald Trump, from its server |
| Youtube blocked many references to Covid-19, to prevent false information being spread, even comedic or accurate content |
| All new media still relies on the original phone lines that traditional media was based on |
| 4/5 books sold are print books, compared to 1/5 eBooks and audio books |
| During the 1970s-2000s, the Sun sold 4 million newspapers daily |
| There are fully prosumer apps like TikTok |
| #MeToo, JustStopOil, Black Lives Matter - Examples of Digital Online Campaigns |
| 2020 US Elections, Trip Advisor, January 6th Insurrection - Examples of Global Village |
| Google Reviews, different apps like Youtube, Netflix, Amazon and Tiktok - Examples of Consumer Choice |
| Arab Spring - Example of Citizen Journalism |
| 1/5 Children experience cyber bullying per year |
| 80% of Netflix users watch recommended shows |
| In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica for political advertising without informed consent |
| Facebook has 3 billion monthly active users in 2023, Youtube has 2 billion monthly active users in 2023 |
| The top 66 highest grossing movies of all time are majority American |
| During Covid 19, misinformation was spread that 5G masts were causing it |
| 9/11 2001, 7/7 London Bombing 2005, British Youths joining ISIS 2014-15, all led to increased Islamophobia in the media and society |
| Lazarsfield: Interviews with voters in the 1940s election revealed only 5% of electors who changed their vote did so because of direct news paper reading, the rest did so after conversations with those who had read the newspapers |