People can access news content through a variety of ways some of which are, Newspapers, Radio, Applications and online news websites such as the ‘Guardian online’. My news consumption is mainly done through applications on my phone, online Websites and televised news programs such as ‘sky news’ and the ‘BBC News’. The reason I get my news through a variety of sources is because with Applications (Apps) and online news websites there are cookies in place – A cookie learns what you like to view and the next time you search something it will show you links and websites it thinks that you will be interested in – which then restrict the types of news you get to view.
When I viewed politics on an online website the ‘Featured’ news that popped up the next time I viewed that website was politics based. For example, last week when I viewed an article about the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) launching a 'intermediate-range ballistic missile' over northern Japan the next day when I logged on I was shown articles of the DPRK threatening Guam which is a United States Overseas Territory this then lead to me being suggested articles about UN (United Nations) sanctions being placed upon the DPRK and the USA threatening the DPRK with “Fire and Fury” if it continued to try to aggravate allies of the US.
The news companies I get my news from are the BBC, SKY, The Guardian, Breitbart, The Independent and some Law journal news sites. As far as being impartial and un-bias, the BBC is regarded as being one of the most ‘neutral’ news outlets. This is because the BBC is funded for by the Tax payers of the UK and is expected to remain impartial to the stories it covers (not be left wing or right wing in its views). However, the government Is constantly changing from conservative to labour/other parties and this brings some problems of credibility for the BBC when reporting news. For example, if the BBC gives out a bad view on the current leader of the Labour party – Jeremy Corbyn - then they could face backlash from the public as they will say they are being impartial whereas if they don’t give a good view on Theresa May – Current Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party – they face their funding being cut by the government.
The Guardian and the independent have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes. However, they are generally trustworthy in the stories they report. Their factuality is very high and most news reports that come from them can be taken seriously as you are getting the correct facts.
Breitbart are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words and publish misleading reports that omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes. Some stories by this newspaper may be untrustworthy as a side note as of 8/17/16 Stephen Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News LLC, became Donald Trump’s campaign’s chief executive. This move ensures that Breitbart will become the official media outlet and propaganda wing for Donald Trump’s Presidential bid and after the election 2016 Stephen Bannon was named Adviser to President-Elect Donald Trump.
The reason I have deliberately chosen to use News corporations that are either Liberal or Conservative is because it gives me a wider scope of the political views in the world and doesn’t shut me off from the opinions of the opposite political party from mine unlike what cookies do. This gives me a better picture of the world from both sides of the political line up.
The way I access these news outlets mostly is on the BBC news app on my phone but I also use the already downloaded News app that’s on all IPhones. On the BBC news app, I had to select topics that I was interested in as part of the ‘My news’ section of the app. This instantly limits the types of news that I get to see. For example, since I had selected the topic areas of: The world, UK Politics, Brexit, Scotland, Counter-Terrorism, Election 2017, and the European Union then I know I won’t be shown any sports news or news to do with the music industry. However, there is the ‘Top stories’ part of the app which shows all the top headlines at the time disregarding the topic areas I have chosen. Some of the headlines that I wouldn’t have been shown in the ‘my news’ section but have been shown in the ‘top stories’ section is; “Was a monkey really hanged in Heartlepool”, “The German school boy that was jailed for writing to the BBC” and “Schools ‘break law’ on religious education”.
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