#poitical

[luidilovins]

🎉GUESS WHO'S GETTING CANNED??? 🎊📢

🤡📂🏛🇺🇸🚔👎

[weshallc]

Where is Wally...sorry Boris?

OK, I would like to open a book (betting system) on how long PM Johnson can stay in Mustique so avoiding commenting on recent events concerning the US and Australia. I was hoping he would have offered support for one of these current situations before now.

[dragonquill1221]

Suffer little boy, scream litte girl

Better to die in pain than live today

Die by a government who claims to care

Then bombs where you pray

[jasonz]

The Netherlands welcomes Trump in his own words

WHO WANTS TO BE SECOND?  http://everysecondcounts.eu/

America first but who’s second?  Europe (and even Kazakhstan) is laughing at Trump video by video.

America First, India Second [Official] - Welcome President Trump

[chuckrochaconsultant-blog]

Bernie Sanders gave us an opportunity we will never be able to repay him for, which was doing this work at a very high level, which in turn, allowed me to hire more Latino voices and do more Latino work and show that Latino firms could do more than just Latino outreach,

SolidarityStrategies.com

[virtualobservationhologram-blog]

Reading Blog 6: Political Economy of the Media

The political economy of media relates to where economic value starts and sits within the media, whether it be ownership or skills. Politically, the term demonstrates the concerns held by media practitioners with the way economic markets are managed and how different individuals and groups, of significant power such as politicians, impacted these.

To further my knowledge I read; ‘The Political Economy of ‘New’ News Environment’ (Freedman, 2010) in ‘New Media, Old News’ (Fenton ed.) and ‘Media Studies: Texts, Production, Context’ (Long and Wall, 2012). Both books are written by media academics from the field of media and communication studies. The first is written by Professor Des Freedman of Goldsmiths, University of London and is arguing that the “traditional business model for delivering news is in crisis” (Freedman, 2010, p.35). The second by Paul Long and Tim Wall of Birmingham City University, however, “consider the nature of media organisations in the context of a free market and the exchange of commodity goods [alongside the relations they enter into]” (Long and Wall, 2012, p.173) due to the new political economic approach.

Freedman explains that the danger with the current political economy of media is the end of the news. His chapter rightly highlights the impact technology is having on younger generations stating news corporations are “in danger because younger audiences are deserting them for the immediacy and interactivity of the internet” (Freedman, 2010, p.35). Whereas Long and Wall identify that in the free market, one of the key features of media businesses is still competition including news organisations stating “[they] compete with each other for audiences, sales and other revenue streams…to maximise and deliver profits” (Long and Wall, 2012, p.173). Rather than focusing specifically on the impact of technology on the audience, the second text focuses on a theory of Dallas Smythe (Smythe, 1981) who argues that we should see media organisations as producing audiences, rather than “producing products like newspapers, websites, or broadcast programmes” (Long and Wall, 2012, p.175).

In comparison, Freedman’s text directly focuses on the direct impact on both the products and audience looking at each independently to highlight the problems the industry faces with the ever furthering advancements of technology.  Whereas Long and Wall look at the context of the different aspects as commodities and the relationships they form, identifying key theories explaining the benefits or aims of the media organisations.

In regards to further research, I would look into ‘How does the impact of technology on the audiences, of all generations, directly affect the production of ‘new’ news?’

 References:

Freedman, D. 2010, The Political Economy of ‘New’ News Environment in ‘New Media, Old News’ (Fenton, N., ed.).

Long, P. and Wall, T. 2012 Media Studies, Texts, Production, Context, Chapter 5, pp. 168-185.

[demidemi-donthaveacrushonyou]

Things I am surprised tumblr as a whole isn't more pissed about:

- Johnny Depp as a native american in The Lone Ranger

- David Cameron trying to pass a law censoring pornographic sites in England

- Pokemon x/y

- Online banking

- Cheez-wiz

[ellisguypoetry-blog]

Political Rap Yo

Minds are blasted cant believe this is how long we've lasted. Hold on its time for change if we can manage it to fix these damned deranged. This shit aint human nature, its crazy people leading  us fools to follow their psycho paths . That's all they know, and the guns to our heads are starting to show as we open our eyes we see the wicked held from us their prize. They seek to enslave god with 

arts of dark magik. Omnipotent as they break our skulls this very moment with batons held by men in blue. Omnipresent with thousand eyed beasts made entirely of surveillance cameras watching our every move. And omniscient so they'll see it through that they know every last detail concerning you. Open your eyes, I'm no conspiracy theorist, rather a terrorist to the shabby life of the ignorant. I'm a deep thinker with a critical urge to see you think deeper. Next time you're at the mall just take a look.... at all the shit they force down your throat. And is any of that what your really need. Not at all, you plead and you bleed for someone to trust. Someone who must above all else be there when everything you know is a lie the walls shatter and you start to cry. Rather than accepting this fate and lay down to die. I'll see you redirecting your anger and hate into the furnace of stars inside our hearts. Burn the loathing to nothing so in the ashes is a turn for love.