News Gatekeeping

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GateKeeping is the control over the selection of content treated by the media usually thought to be in the hands of a few news editors who act as guardians of the information. Basically they are the people who determine the stories and information we get to hear. I would say that the gatekeeper at Fox News is Rupert Murdoch and his team because he is the founder at Fox News and he owns so much of the media that his team has to be the one making the calls on what type of news they want to talk about. The film shows gatekeeping in the works when they show the memos that Fox News sends out discussing what the anchors are and aren't allowed to talk about and how they should talk about certain topics. For example when one of the memos stated “Let’s refer to the U.S Marines we see in the foregrounds as “sharpshooters” not snipers, which carries a negative connotation" That right there shows how they manipulate the words they say to get the information to come out exactly how they want the viewers to perceive it just by changing one word. By doing things like that it twists all the facts and gives people the wrong idea …show more content…

Agenda Setting is the ability to tell us what issues are important and has a very powerful influence on our media. Agenda Setting is so important to understand because the media agenda sets agenda for public discourse which in turn sets the agenda for policy makers. The film Outfoxed demonstrates Agenda Setting through the Fox News Channel by telling us what they believe is important for us to know about what actually goes on at Fox News from more of a behind the scenes angle. By the film choosing to go about sharing the information with us this way it helps the viewers see how messed up there system really is and may change the way viewers look at Fox News. I never really watched Fox News to begin with, but after watching Outfoxed I got a better understanding on how our news industry actually

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