Writing assignment
Write a 500- to 550-word essay response for Part One. Comprehensive writing skills must be used. Choose one of the three media problems below as the topic for your essay response. You are the news director of a local television station. The city council has just voted to close city parks 3 days a week to save money. Meanwhile, a major celebrity has died. The park story has greater effect on your viewers, but the celebrity death will get bigger ratings? Which do you make your lead story and why? this is part A.
Solve the problem using what you have learned. Solutions must be realistic. If you think cable news networks do not have enough foreign coverage, for example, it is not enough to say you will simply hire more reporters. You must say where that money will come from. Be creative, both in the identification of the problem and, especially, in the solution.
Include the following: • The role of media in delivering news to the public • the significance of immediate news media delivery on culture • The social responsibilities of news media. • Ethical and legal considerations in the online world • The importance of ethical and legal compliance in online interactions • The various information delivery methods to audiences • Advantages and disadvantages of modern media delivery • The changes in media over the last century
This is Part Two: Write a 500- to 550-word essay response for Part Two
Comprehensive writing skills must be used. Explain the effect of relationships among television, movies, and electronic games with culture.
the rest of part two. Include the following: • How culture is reflected in movies and television • The relationship between television and movies and culture • The effect of electronic games on culture • The most influential and important games released to the general public within the last few years •
Controversial issues over modern electronic games Post your paper as an attachment. • Include both essay responses in the same document. Separate your two essay responses by adding the headings Part One and Part Two.