Comparing English broadcast journalism and French broadcast journalism

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Broadcast journalism history france england

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History of journalism has been influenced by technologies and also by cultural history and geographic areas. In order to study this specific point, we will observe in this essay the differences between broadcast journalism in England and broadcast journalism in France, through their own history and culture.

The United Kingdom is composed of twice as many journalists as in France. How two countries within the same economic area can be that different? A journalist in France is seen as someone "with a main occupation, regular and paid for, with the practice of his profession in one or several daily publications or periodicals, or in one or several news agencies and who draws its resources" (Act of March 29, 1931 and Article L. 762-2 of the French Labor Code). However, in the United Kingdom, the journalist function is to collect and spread information about current events and trends, in a neutral tone. Those two ways of working are acknowledged as journalism. In order to get a better understanding of this distinction we will develop contrasts between journalism in France and journalism in the United Kingdom in this essay.
In terms of forms and methods, print journalism is subject to competitive pressure from hyper-media time and expansion of market information (having seen the emergence, then triumph of television). It must evolve and adapt constantly to define its identity, its role, its ability to remain profitable, especially in a period marked by a lasting crisis spread by the daily press.

Enlargement of the media universe also follows a diversified workplace that began in the era of the radio (1930-1960): these days journalists are not only men but also women. The distribution of 1990 gives the following proportions: 74.7 per 100 to print, 9.5 per 100 on television, 7.5 per 100 on radio and 7.8 per 100 in agencies.

Finally, we must emphasize the increasing specialization profiles (sports, economics, science), as determined by the huge universe of journals and magazines since the 60s - a sign visible also on radio and television.

But even if those evolutions are common to those two countries, we can also find differences through expressions, styles and perceptions of journalism itself.

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[...] The dynamism of the English press is also the expression of a country attached to the liberties and to the business. The satiric magazine Punch ( 1841 ) and The Economist launched in 1843 to campaign for the free exchange, are in this respect symbolic. From the 1690s, the Parliament guarantees the freedom of the media, and with the Copyright Act of 1709, allows the development of a real branch of industry. The abolition, in 1855, of the tax on the press and the advertising (Stamp Act) allows the development of the cheap titles big editions. [...]

[...] In order to get a better understanding of this distinction we will develop contrasts between journalism in France and journalism in United Kingdom in this essay. In terms of forms and methods, print journalism is subject to competitive pressure from hyper-media time and expansion of market information (having seen the emergence, then triumph of a television). It must evolve and adapt constantly to define its identity, its role, its ability to remain profitable, especially in a period marked by a lasting crisis spread by the daily press. [...]

[...] Journalism remains a trade paper, from past till now. As evidenced by the pronounced distrust of the public against journalists, public judge, in 2001, that more than 25 per 100 journalists succumb to the pressures of money and the pressures of "political parties and power" (Sofres barometer). Evidence also the low confidence in the reliability of information (television, radio, newspapers), which oscillates only around 50 per What the debate, strong and recurring, the duties and journalistic ethics, without falling, of course, in excess of La Fontaine, writing to Simon de Troyes, in 1686: "Any newspaper maker must tribute to the evil. [...]

[...] Today, in 2009, the BBC broadcasts around the world and the media the world's most reliable. In his article on daily news from Bangladesh, Yamin Zakaria is taking a firm position onto criticizing British medias : he is considering that journalists are lacking of implication in defending a point of view, and so allow diversity of news sources recent series of programme televised mainly by the BBC and Channel covering the Muslims in Britain, points to a single agenda of marketing the notion of extremist? [...]

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