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1. explore or survey wifi community areas where everyone pays one price for high speed internet service
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2. They should use social network sites like facebook to make news readily accessible

   Facebook is accessed by millions of people around the world . Statistics showed that more people logon on facebook than they even watch TV or listen to the radio.

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3. Media bias, damaging news as a whole
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4. tv on demand
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5. Cut back on infotainment

   Media companies should change their approaches to news and information by not allowing it to be dominated by infotainment. Vicente-Mariñol in his book review of News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment, says the author “defines global infotainment as the globalization of US-style, ratings driven television journalism. This privileges privatized soft news about celebrities, crime, corruption, and violence, and presents it as a form of spectacle at the expense of news about political, civic, and public affairs”. However, the big problem is that the entertainment portion of the segment over powers the news portion making it harder for one to receive solid news. Rather than viewers hearing a story that is meaningful to their life, they might hear a story telling them something about a celebrity. At that point and time the viewers need for entertainment is filled, yet, their need for news containing substance lacks.
   There use to be a time in which the news actually reported on the issues that they people should know. However, that is not the case anymore. Now the news has turned into business in which a news reporter’s job is to see who can get the dirtiest gossip on someone. These days all the news cares about is gathering an audience to increase ratings. Most people do not even realized the things that they are being subjected to but the media companies know exactly what they are doing. Media companies are driven by money and they are constantly trying to figure out how to make more money. In the video Rich Media, Poor Democracy McChesney says that there is a primary corporate objective to which news divisions are held, and that is to make a profit. Therefore, they report on what the people are interested in not the stories that could possibly change our lives and or our way of thinking. Hence, investigative journalism has died leaving the media companies with fewer places to draw in news. As a result, the audience is fed “fluff” news.
   
   The fact that people are being fed “fluff” news is a problem. Instead of caring about real issues and how they affect our lives, our attention is turned to trivial things. Being that the media cannot control how we think, they can however, control what we think about (Agenda Setting Theory). This can be a scary thing. Occurrences like this are big when it comes to things such as politics. For example, we are currently in a war. Very rarely were we ever shown facts as to why we were fighting this war. Yet our minds are taken off that by the media covering things such as the treatment of Iraqi women. The infotainment that we were shown did nothing but contribute to the lack of knowledge that we already have. Other places in politics in which we can see infotainment taking over is during the presidential elections. In the 1989 production Illusion of News Bill Moyers talks about how “less than 10 percent of the 1988 campaign coverage was actually substance. It is twenty years later and not too many things have changed since then. The political campaigns that people run these days are full of slander not substance. Yet, again, it is infotainment it that is what generates money.

   Last but not least, companies should decrease the infotainment because we are living in a generation of unformed people. One could argue that people should inform themselves and that is very agreeable. On the other hand, people should not have to search so hard attain information substance. If media companies have the information to share with the public, they should report it rather than taking the pieces they want in order to make an entertaining story.

   Media companies should change their approaches to news and information by not allowing it to be dominated by infotainment. Vicente-Mariñol in his book review of News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment, says the author “defines global infotainment as the globalization of US-style, ratings driven television journalism. This privileges privatized soft news about celebrities, crime, corruption, and violence, and presents it as a form of spectacle at the expense of news about political, civic, and public affairs”. However, the big problem is that the entertainment portion of the segment over powers the news portion making it harder for one… more

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6. Easier way to find personal information about the people who deliver the News to the viewers.

   One thing that I believe media companies need to change in their approach to delivering news and information is their relationships with the viewers, and how easy the access is to make that relationship. When news is beings delivered you are giving the employees of the news team’s names and their job descriptions. Then it goes on into the news where these people that you have never met are telling you what is going on in the local area around you. Some people might not care who these people are, but if they got to know them better, then maybe they would listen more, or even more benefits could result. Media companies are, however, trying to make an effort to do this. You can go online to some news channel sites and look up information about the people who work there. The problem is that this information is not always on the home page.
   Take WQAD for example. On their home page at http://www/wqad.com/ , they provide a lot of information about the top stories, the weather, and even provide access to WQAD’s Facebook, Twitter, and mobile apps for your phone. Now these are good sources of information to get to know the news station better, but it doesn’t really focus on the people that are doing all the work to get you the news. There is a page that does give descriptions of the news anchors, reporters, sports guys, and meteorologists, however, you have to go through two different links on the page to get there, and it is not very clear at first how to get there. This is something that needs to change. The homepage should include the information about the workers, and it should be clearly telling us that it is what it is.
   Now after looking at the different links that talk about the employees, I noticed that it only talked a little about who these people were. The information provided is not really enough for viewers to really get to know who these people really are. WQAD needs to use one of their original ideas with Facebook and Twitter, and have each of the employees put there profile pages and Twitter pages on as links next to their names. With these two social networks, people can really get to know who the people delivering the news to them really are. Also, with the socialization between viewers and reporters, new stories can be talked about or found from anywhere or anybody. If a reporter has many different friends on Facebook, he or she can look through the social network and see if there is anything interesting that deserves to be put onto the news. Twitter also will be a good tool for reporters to look through. People may put up weird or interesting events that have happened recently in the local area.
   After looking at both WHBF (http://www.whbf.com/) and KWQC’s (http://ww.kwqc.com/) websites I found that they were very similar in the approaches they took to give the viewers information about there news teams. They did not include this information on the home pages, and there were on different links that were not clearly labeled. I truly believe that if these media companies changed this aspect of their delivery of news, many more viewers will watch. Also, viewers will watch with a better respect for the employees who deliver the news now that they have been able to get to know the news team better. The news channels will also benefit from the extra sources that they will now be able to use. With local people using different social networks that are connected to people in the media companies, news teams can report more information, especially information that viewers can highly relate to.

   One thing that I believe media companies need to change in their approach to delivering news and information is their relationships with the viewers, and how easy the access is to make that relationship. When news is beings delivered you are giving the employees of the news team’s names and their job descriptions. Then it goes on into the news where these people that you have never met are telling you what is going on in the local area around you. Some people might not care who these people are, but if they got to know them better, then maybe… more

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7. Going Back to Journalistic Essentials

   Media companies have to change the way in which they deliver their news and information to their audience from many aspects. First, there needs to be a new look at what is actually news worthy; all while taking into consideration the world of journalism ethics that can apply to these media companies as well. While trying not to blame only media, I also believe that society needs to put an effort into changing as well. Members of society need to become more active in what the media delivers them, and be open to intellectual versatilities.

   Media companies I understand have a main goal of attaining revenue for themselves. When you are a huge company with many networks and very successful, why wouldn’t you want to strive and make the most? As a result of these media companies trying to get money they have turned the outlook of news and information into a business of concentration on commodities. The audience is fooled into thinking that what the media tells them or portrays as being a need in life is really only a useless want. Media companies are building a wall between the relationships they have with their audience when they are no longer interested in serving their audience, but rather how their audience can serve them. 
   

   Media companies no longer are sustaining themselves to the bringing traditional news worthiness. Where are the days where society would sit down in the mornings and read the local newspaper, or the nights of sitting in front of the television set with family to hear what the community’s happenings were? Media companies need to go back and cover news worthy issues. Save the News.org concentrates on how news needs to worry more about the public and how to better serve them. Media companies may bank from all their entertainment shows and merchandise, but none of it is of useful information. Today’s society is becoming less interested in the beauty of knowledge, culture, and practical information, because of all the “fluff” the media is portraying.

   Journalism years ago was very informative and intriguing, with sensitive personal stories, and even investigative which opened up different ways of obtaining news that people were usually no used to. Media companies have to realize that because these types of news have been taken from society they have taken away their right of having an opinion on what occurs around them whether it is socially or politically. By presenting their audience with these types of news, they will find a more prestigious level of interaction between the media and audience, which can lead into a society who is an informed public and ultimately still helps the media in creating more ideas for news. It is beneficial for society to understand the world around them, everything from the good the bad and anything in between.

   Reading Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel’s, The Elements of Journalism is truly what media companies should try and look back in order to reestablish the ways in which they are to deliver information. The elements are:
   1. Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth.
   2. Its first loyalty is to citizens.
   3. Its essence is a discipline of verification.
   4. Its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover.
   5. It must serve as an independent monitor of power.
   6. It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise.
   7. It must strive to make the significant interesting and relevant.
   8. It must keep the news comprehensive and in proportion.
   9. Its practitioners have an obligation to exercise their personal conscience.
   10. Citizens, too have rights and responsibilities when it comes to the news

   These elements are the steps that have been lost due to the fact that media companies have one concern, and again that being booming their profits. At what cost will the media go to gain that objective? Apparently at the cost of the truth, loyalty, and being open to public criticism. Last time I checked, when was our right to the first amendment taken away from us?

   Media companies have to change the way in which they deliver their news and information to their audience from many aspects. First, there needs to be a new look at what is actually news worthy; all while taking into consideration the world of journalism ethics that can apply to these media companies as well. While trying not to blame only media, I also believe that society needs to put an effort into changing as well. Members of society need to become more active in what the media delivers them, and be open to intellectual versatilities.

   Media companies I understand have

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8. Media should devote more time to community stories and less time on crime

   Stories of crime floods television screens regularly and local news is subject to it as well. The news seemingly dedicates itself more to stories of destruction rather than stories of community involvement and concern or global issues. The results from the over representation of crime and violence leads to a poorly informed audience, whose concerns lie with fear, rather than rationale. Furthermore, this type of representation only helps to support false stereotypes behind criminals in society.

   The idea that television viewing helps to shape the fear of violence in the world is not an entirely new concept. The Cultivation Theory of George Gerbner, which may be found in Em Griffin’s seventh edition of A First Look at Communication Theory, helps to frame this concept. Gerbner found that the more television an individual watched, the more likely they were to hold unrealistic fears of risk in the world. Gerbner frames “dramatic violence” as the physical violence seen on television. We see this dramatic violence as local news clips replay the same images of a gas station robbery copious amounts of times. In fact, it can be difficult to find a television station, news or not, which does not display some form of physical violence (such as in the form of abuse or high-speed car chases). Gerbner used a specific method to assess viewers and their relation to fear of worldly risk. “Heavy viewers” watched at least four hours of television per any given day. “Light viewers” viewed about two hours of television in any given day. The heavy viewers were found to hold more fears of risk when, statistically speaking, the risk they fear rarely occurs. This creates a “mean world syndrome,” which Gerbner explains is a cynical view of the world, in which there is a lack of trust given to strangers. This syndrome affects the heavy viewers most. So when an individual avidly watches television news broadcasts, and they constantly see stories pertaining to crime, what should they think? Regardless what thoughts they should hold, they will be most likely to assume that the world is a scary place.

   This notion set up by Gerbner seems sound enough, but to support that the fears are irrational (due to a false belief in a considerable amount of crime), Danilo Yanich’s work Crime Creep: Urban and Suburban Crime on Local TV News is presented. Yanich claims that viewers of local news find that there should be an increase in law enforcement to stop crimes in their communities. The public’s perception is one of a violent world. Crime rates were actually down at the time of Yanich’s study, and yet the news coverage of crime was at an all time high for suburban areas. Why would the news feel the need to devote more time to crime coverage when it actually holds little pertinence in relation to the crime rates? What may be worse are the reports of the public unknowingly following the news stories and placing reliability and credibility upon them. The public was reported to have committed to the local news because the news was supposedly doing well with coverage. If this were true, they why do Pastore & Maguire report in Yanich’s work that the public placed large concern on safety when crime rates had been down in the previous decade? Yanich further reports that policy makers are finding a large quantity of crime reports in local news, essentially overburdening the coverage. Finally, Yanich’s work ties beautifully to Gerbner’s theory model, because of the abundance of pictures in the news. As explained before, when viewers see repeated images of violence, they will be more likely to believe that there is increased violence in the world. This fear however, is not consistent with the statistics of crime.
   The argument for less crime displayed in local news also calls upon the misrepresentation of minorities. Dixon and Linz report in Mastro, Lapinski, Kopacz, and Behm-Morawitz’s work entitled The Influence of Exposure to Depictions of Race and Crime in TV News on Viewer’s Social Judgements, that evidence indicated that crime is usually displayed with a minority face, thereby increasing the irrational fear of minority races, especially for young, black males. At the same time, the news does not adequately depict the white criminals in correlation with the crimes committed, because the white population is so often viewed as the victim. Dixon, Azocar, and Casas also report in the work of Mastro et al., by describing how the U.S. Department of Labor actually reports inconsistent statistics in relation to race. There are not as many black male criminals as is suggested by the local news. These inconsistencies help to mitigate the crimes of whites. Tying these statistics back with Yanich’s work, one can see how the over representation of a certain race in pictures used in news can help the public determine false fears of races, furthering the support for Gerbner’s model of a violent and risky world.

   So why has this happened? Why is this over-representation of crime in the news still occurring? Yanich claims that crime fulfills the want for drama and excitement. Without this crime, there is a fear of producing dead news, appealing to no one. This appeal however, is causing the world to live life with grim colored glasses, unfit to realistically represent the modern world. Beyond the weather, people want a thrill, and the news is providing it, regardless the repercussions.

   So how should the media companies change their approaches to delivering news and information? For starters, they should keep the amount of crime story coverage to a minimum and cut petty crimes completely. In order to keep the news interesting and pertinent to the public, the news should replace the unnecessary crime stories with those of global concerns, so as to advance the sphere of interest beyond that of one community. They could furthermore report more on community affairs. Each news broadcast should host stories from the local community relating specifically to progression. The pedantic styling of crime coverage has taken over, and now it is high time to devote more coverage to the positive aspects surrounding the communities, and the public should be well informed of the positive just as they are of the negative.

   Stories of crime floods television screens regularly and local news is subject to it as well. The news seemingly dedicates itself more to stories of destruction rather than stories of community involvement and concern or global issues. The results from the over representation of crime and violence leads to a poorly informed audience, whose concerns lie with fear, rather than rationale. Furthermore, this type of representation only helps to support false stereotypes behind criminals in society.

   The idea that television viewing helps to shape the fear of violence in the world is not an entirely new concept. The Cultivation Theory… more

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9. Give the people what they need, not what they want.

   The media companies should take up the responsibility of giving audiences/viewers the news and information they need rather than the arts and entertainment updates they want. The media companies should take it upon themselves to show the hard stories, to uncover scandal and corruption, and to give the audiences information that is relevant to their lives. The media is a reflection of the society we live in and from the past decades it has become blatantly obvious that people only care to take in the information they want rather than the information they truly need to become a well educated media consumer. If media companies truly want to change their approach to news and information, they need to invest in educating the public on what is actually "news and information". They should invest in teaching, starting very young, how to decipher the messages that are being delivered.

   The media companies should take up the responsibility of giving audiences/viewers the news and information they need rather than the arts and entertainment updates they want. The media companies should take it upon themselves to show the hard stories, to uncover scandal and corruption, and to give the audiences information that is relevant to their lives. The media is a reflection of the society we live in and from the past decades it has become blatantly obvious that people only care to take in the information they want rather than the information they truly need to become a well educated… more

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10. Unbias media and breaking up the media conglomrates

    There should be news that is totally unbiased that just reports objective facts. The programs that do have slants should inform the audience of the slant. There should also be an group that check sources to find out if what is reported is true. Third, media conglomrates should be broken so there can be more voices because media conglomrates look out for the interests of the companies that could protects themselves against certain information about them coming out.

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11. Media Monopolies

    Should our media be concentrated in the hands of the few or should they be broken up?
    Early in the 20th century our government went after corporations who owned too much of their fields, whether it was oil or steel. Should the FCC do the same with media companies who are acquiring too many channels, programming, etc?
    Do you think there is any danger in a single company owning a large percentage of media channels?

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12. Less Petty Crime Stories and More Relation to Global News at the Local Level

    Local news is flooded with stories of "an armed robbery on 6th street" or "a house fire in this neighborhood." While these stories are indeed important to the victims, there is little chance that they affect even 1% of the community that hears these reports.

    Local news must include more national and international stories and how those stories affect local citizens. Local news is one of the most utilized sources for news among Americans, so it needs to adequately reflect not only the local community, but the national and international community as well.

    It goes without saying that this news should not be focused on celebrity gossip but on stories of international impact. It is startling how little people know about the world, including the names of international leaders other than Barack Obama.

    This short presentation from TED.com give a very good overview of the problems we face with newsmedia in America:

    http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/alisa_miller_shares_the_news_about_the_news.html

    Local news is flooded with stories of "an armed robbery on 6th street" or "a house fire in this neighborhood." While these stories are indeed important to the victims, there is little chance that they affect even 1% of the community that hears these reports.

    Local news must include more national and international stories and how those stories affect local citizens. Local news is one of the most utilized sources for news among Americans, so it needs to adequately reflect not only the local community, but the national and international community as well.

    It goes without saying that this news… more

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13. News Vs Opinion must be clearly and frequently labeled as such. Facts should be clearly referenced.

    There needs to be accountability for any NEWS Identifying distribution. Reported News needs to clearly reference sources. Corrections are manditory and get same time - time/slot.

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14. mentally healthy news

    The current media is built around assumptions of conflict, fear, and gossip. I want to hear about about our problems, including suggested solutions and successful efforts to deal with the problems. This reinforces our sense of capability as a people. I want to know what is valid truth rather than presenting false talking points as if that balances the perspective. I want a place for news where courteous discourse is the norm.

    The current websites use algorithms built on what is popular, which amps up adrenaline rush topics and the lowest common denominator. I want an option that we can trust to let us know the truth, and that reinforces our sense of progress and perspective.

    I want an algorithim that let's me choose if I don't want to hear about murders and car chases today, but instead hear about the progress in reducing crime in urban areas that provides models of what can be done. What would you do with an algorithm that lets you form the news on your personal website?

    The current media is built around assumptions of conflict, fear, and gossip. I want to hear about about our problems, including suggested solutions and successful efforts to deal with the problems. This reinforces our sense of capability as a people. I want to know what is valid truth rather than presenting false talking points as if that balances the perspective. I want a place for news where courteous discourse is the norm.

    The current websites use algorithms built on what is popular, which amps up adrenaline rush topics and the lowest common denominator. I want an option that we can… more

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15. they should stop whitewashing with tabloid fodder (Corona, Queens NY)

    My point is that their really isn't news on the news anymore. The majority of the time, its full of tabloid fodder and if they finally do have news its biased. We need something that gives us the facts and breaks it down in a way that we can understand what is going on. A lot of the times news reporters will use all this lingo as if the normal person would understand. This confuses people and makes them not want to watch. It's not dumbing down if you actually speak in English!

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16. Require stations to pay reporters more than newscasters

    Newscasters get the glory of fame already, and we'll never be short of people who can do their job. Reporters do the actual work and the system is suffering under a great lack of them right now, or at least funding for them. Most stations these days rely on very few sources for their information, and that is causing a great void of variety in views on essential issues, and a lack of information on a global level.

    Also, get unattractive people to report and anchor again, those gleaming white teeth remind me too much of high school popular kids.

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17. FCC would regulate that with which it did not agree.

    The idea of the government controlling news and information delivery, or policy making to change the nature of the information reminds me of what propogandist Dr. Goebels did in Nazi germany. This control will never fly with the American People. Unconstitutional.

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18. Replace the black and white polarization of issues with REAL DEBATE between acual experts

    Pundits are the most useless tripe to froth up on the shores of humanity since tele-evangelists. Get rid of them and have actual debates between 3 groups, one from each side and a MODERATE opinion who can argue intelligently for and against each. Require the newscasters to stop editorializing and emotionalizing issues that are already volatile. Post the persons full credentials in small writing under them so we know they are legitimate.

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19. Osscene Commercial Broadcasts need not be overlooked!

    On a daily basis I have seen offensive and obscene commercials during daytime and evening hours, and this needs to stop. I am referring to these commercials that promoting male enhancement pills. This broadcast has come on throughout the day and evening hours when it shouldn’t. There should be tighter restrictions on what is being aired for promotional purposes because this particular ad is encouraging males to take a pill and in return you will be able to get more women and enjoy sex. Keep in mind that this is a local channel. According to the First Amendment indecent material is protected and can’t be banned entirely, but in order for my children and I not to be subjected to see these offensive broadcasts they are suppose to be restricted during certain hours, but why are they not?

    On a daily basis I have seen offensive and obscene commercials during daytime and evening hours, and this needs to stop. I am referring to these commercials that promoting male enhancement pills. This broadcast has come on throughout the day and evening hours when it shouldn’t. There should be tighter restrictions on what is being aired for promotional purposes because this particular ad is encouraging males to take a pill and in return you will be able to get more women and enjoy sex. Keep in mind that this is a local channel. According to the First Amendment indecent material… more

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20. FCC: Keep Over the Air TV (OTA) free and available.

    The recent re-banding and auctioning of spectrum formerly reserved for broadcast TV has spurred the thoughts of many that the FCC might be anxious to sell off even more spectrum. Some have gone as far as to say that, with cable, satellite and Internet media available, there is no longer a need for OTA TV broadcasting. Nothing could be further from the truth.
    OTA broadcasting provides a local focus from a broadcaster in a specific geographic region. That focus is not shared by cable and satellite operations.
    There are also economic and social arguments to be made in favor of maintaining free OTA broadcasting. While most households have at least one television, not everyon can afford a subscription to cable or satellite content.
    Free OTA broadcasting, serving the community interest, must be maintained.

    The recent re-banding and auctioning of spectrum formerly reserved for broadcast TV has spurred the thoughts of many that the FCC might be anxious to sell off even more spectrum. Some have gone as far as to say that, with cable, satellite and Internet media available, there is no longer a need for OTA TV broadcasting. Nothing could be further from the truth.
    OTA broadcasting provides a local focus from a broadcaster in a specific geographic region. That focus is not shared by cable and satellite operations.
    There are also economic and social arguments to be made in favor of… more

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