3 accounts of the James Murdoch story

Article from SKY News- http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=684100&vId=2841769&cId=Top%20Stories

Key Points

- James Murdoch stated that "He didn't see. He wasn't told. He didn't know." 

- Murdoch was questioned for more than two and a half hours. 

- Murdoch made one important concession to their version of events - acknowledging that he'd been briefed on the incriminating email back in 2008 - but insisted that its importance was kept from him.

- More than a dozen journalists at News International, News Corp.'s British newspaper subsidiary, have been arrested, and several executives, including The Wall Street Journal's publisher, Les Hinton, have resigned.

- Murdoch isn't home free. A judge-led inquiry into Britain's media could call him back to the UK for more questioning. And detectives could dredge up more damaging revelations.

Article from The Sun- http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/3928507/Murdoch-I-didnt-see-hacking-email.html

Key Points

- James Murdoch insisted yesterday he was not told the full scale of phone hacking at the News of the World.

- The News International chairman blamed the Sunday tabloid's ex-editor Colin Myler and its legal chief Tom Crone for keeping him in the dark at a meeting in 2008.

- He repeatedly told MPs he was not shown the so-called "For Neville" email, which had been marked for the paper's ex-chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck and indicated large-scale hacking.

- He said: "It is not something that I would condone, it is not something I had knowledge of, and it is not something I think that has a place in the way that we operate."

Article from The Guardian- 

 

NEWSPAPERS: The effect of online technology

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M7U_UO0dTbMwCQLKOe9D6BAseQaPjmjrAEPbCbdrqRA/edit?pli=1

Newspapers in decline.

Newspapers are in decline due to comeptition with one another. As a way of surviving this idustry they are making money from advertising. Due to E-media the print format such as newspapers are having trouble to compete as E-media is becoming increasingly better in giving news information out to it's consumers, this is because news gets distributed quicker and is easier to access. as a result of this newspapers have lost 2.25 million readers. Furthermore advertising revenue's have also decreased by 20%. As a result of this newspaper companies are making dramatic changes to their businesses such as staff cutting etc. there have been predictions made that the newspaper industry will start to decline even more and that newspaper companies will start to close down.

Why the newspaper industry is in crisis

the newspaper industry is in crisis due to the use of technology and the rise of UGC the main victim of this is the internet as it is such a broad thing in terms of websites that we can access and how user generated it is. this shows that the internet plays a more dominant role than print based information as consumers have more access to the internet than they ever have before. there are 5 reasons as to why the newspaper industry is in crisis, looking at the article that we had to read it states 5 reasons they are the following;

1. Ignoring Signs of Change.

2. Dismissing unconventional competitors.
4. Giving up on promising experiemtns too quickly.

3. Experimenting too narrowly.

5. Embarking on a 'crash course'. 

Should the news be free?

I think the news should be made free to a certain extent. My reasons for this are that we shouldn't have to pay for something that has an impact on our lives and our day to day routines. However I do think that the news shouldn't be free because this can create more damage than good because this means that many people's job's will be lost due to people becoming "citizen journalists" and because there are more ways in which the general public can get involved in producing news, for example e-media and the use of social-networking. forums and discussions on newspaper sites etc. This is an affect because it means that we are doing other peoples jobs in which they are getting paid for doing what us "citizen journalsits" are starting to do. Therefore I believe that maybe the news shouldn't be free but cheaper to access or purchase.

User Generated Content.

5 Example Of UGC Making The News

The Arab-Spring article from the guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVD6ci0SpPs 

Ian Tomlinson's Death: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/g20-police-assault-ian-tomlinson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECMVdl-9SQ 

Gaddafi's Death- This was user generated content because the footage was first-hand and not professionally filmed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmTIUB7rKQA



9/11 sound footage- phone calls to loved one's from people of the plane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icfkIH3j-nk

Cat Bin Lady- Filmed by CCTV footage of a house  "Surveillance Society": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXNJ3MZ-AUo