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“A Window on the World” - To What Extent is This an Accurate Description of TV News?
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"A Window on the World" To What Extent is This an Accurate Description of TV News? Please Support Your Answer with Examples. The news is generally viewed by the public as a "window on the world", but when put under scrutiny this does not appear to be so. The idea of the news being a "window" is that the audience looks through unaided. "A window on the world" suggests that the audience is looking on the world, but many news bulletins mainly focus on national news, as this is what the target audience is perceived to be interested in. However, stations try to convince the public that this statement is true and that their news is authoritative and reliable. A lot of money and effort is put into this by having things like banks of monitors in the background and stakeouts, which aren't necessary to the information being given. Stakeouts simply make the...
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