1) To what extent do you agree with Alain de Botton's views on the News?
- i agree with Alain de Botton's view to quite an extent as i do believe that the media is powerful in shaping how we view society.
2) How can you link Marxism and Hegemony to de Botton's criticisms of the News?
- The media is a form of manipulating the audience which links to Marxism and hegemony because due to the fact that a high majority of the audience do not know how to decode the news and therefore follow it as a form of hegemony without knowing that they are consenting to this way of keeping and maintaining the status quo in society.
3) How could you use Pluralism and new technology to challenge de Botton's views on the News?
- Pluralism and new technology gives the audience a change to find out news themselves and also create their own unbiased news through UGC and citizen journalism which goes against de Botton's view of the audience being manipulated by the audience.
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.
- Challenges: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/30/sun-website-to-scrap-paywall - sun scrapping the paywall challenges de Botton's view because it is beneficial to the audience who seems to hold the power over the news.
- Supports: http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2015/mar/04/the-most-important-article-youll-ever-read - this article is about how to determine which articles are important to write about, this supports de Botton as he also goes on about how some stories are presented as more important due to what is popular. this article looks at how to determine the importance
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