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This 3 page paper discusses the blurring of the line between news and entertainment, and what TV should broadcast if it claims it is broadcasting news. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of what news should be broadcast and why. Discussion Entertainment vs. news: A forum held at USC in 1998 by the Committee of Concerned Journalists discussed precisely this point: that
some journalists have noticed trends that are "getting in the way of journalism always fulfilling its responsibilities" (News as entertainment and entertainment as news, 1998). Viewpoints about these trends are
varied and dont always see them as threats, though many do. Some journalists worry that blurring the line between news and entertainment threatens "societys sense of distinction between fact and
fiction-of the real and unreal" (News as entertainment and entertainment as news, 1998). If people no longer can distinguish what is real from what is fictional, they are easy to
fool, manipulate and scare, all of which makes them easy to control. But the second point the conference attendees made is that news has "always been mixed with entertainment" in
some form or other, and is probably "much less corrupt from an ethical and commercial standpoint" today than it was in the past (News as entertainment and entertainment as news,
1998). This change has occurred because journalism now is "simply another commodity, a product, whose purpose is profit" (News as entertainment and entertainment as news, 1998). The third point is
that the "shift toward showmanship the next generation of journalists" means that these people "are not being taught values of accuracy, of ethics, that were hard fought and won by
past generations" (News as entertainment and entertainment as news, 1998). This is very troubling, because it goes to the heart of investigative journalism. If the new generation of journalists doesnt
understand about things like the need to protect confidential sources, then they will no longer have access to the most important information about current issues, and the public will be
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