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MEDIA AND POLITICAL GLOBALIZATION

2:An essential process of globalization is political globalization. Globalization has transformed politics in
profound ways: formation and overthrow of kingdoms and empires and creation of the nation-state.

Media are subject to other pressures in this age of high-tech persuasion, manipulation, and propaganda.
Economic, political, and personal pressures shape the news around the globe.

3.CNN Effect- foreign policy- especially actions of the US government- seemed to be driven by dominant
stories appearing on CNN and other 24-hours news networks. (Bahador, 2007).

4. CNN Effect= driving foreign policy. ( KIM, PAKI HIGHLIGHT ITO. HEHE)

5.Policy making they found, was driven by numerous factors, and the news was not often primary
importance or consequence to the decision making of policy makers. (Robinson, 2002).

6.In the age of globaliation, the opposite hypothesis appears to be true: governments shape and
manipulate the news. (IT IS ANOTHER KEY OF FEATURE OF MEDIA AND POLITICAL GLOBALIZATION)

7.‘Cash for Coverage: Bribery of Journalists around the World’, the Center for Media Assistance call
bribes ‘the dark part of journalism’.

8.Ristow, (2010) “Not only do journalists accept bribes and media houses accept paid materials
disguised as news stories but all too often, reporters and editors are the perpetrators, extorting money
either for publishing favourable stories- or for not publishing damaging ones.’

In Africa, the practice has a name: BROWN ENVELOPE JOURNALISM.

9.Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky (1988) charge the news media with being complicit in
“manufacturing consent.” They challenge the standard conception of Western journalists as
“watchdogs” on the powerful.

10.FORCES THAT LEAD TO ROUTINE PUBLISHING AND PROMOTING OF NEWS SHAPED BY GOVERMENTS
AND CORPORATIONS:

-media’s ownership by, or close relationship with corporations

-drive for profits

-ratings and advertising revenue

-journalists’ close relationships with biased or involved sources in government and business

Some scholars have suggested that new media- digital media, such as computers, tablets, and
cellphones- have the potential to invigorate and transform political life in the modern world.