Paper Tigers?

Chapman, Jane L. (author) / Nuttall, Nick (author)

Journalism Today ; 297-316

2011-04-05

19 pages

9781405179539 , 9781444395372

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395372.ch14

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

four themes, offering opportunities ‐ threats, and paper tigers, that posterity alone will decide , Rupert Murdoch's STAR TV Network in 1994 ‐ removing BBC World Service Television from its network, after representations from government of China , future history, and paper tigers ‐ media landscape, “state of play” through nexus of historical precedents , The World is Their Oyster ‐ globalization and concentration of ownership, two sides of the same coin , Telstar and satellite broadcasting ‐ changing the whole dynamics of news gathering and distribution , journalism reached a crossroads ‐ whether personalization, globalization and localization, have aided and abetted new technologies of the satellite , FactFile on Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation ‐ spread of television reception via satellite , The Great Storm, or the greatest tempest ‐ recorded in the British Isles, as Daniel Defoe's novels, Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders , neighborhood watch, Britain's media regulator Ofcom in 2006 ‐ “local” services as any targeted at geographical communities , journalists today, hard‐pressed to match ‐ evocative and powerful prose of The Storm