The mass media in the GB and USA

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Dátum: 05.05.2012
Jazyk: Angličtina
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The mass media in the GB and USA
In Britain radio and television broadcasting is provided by the state owned BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) whih has a high international reputation for objectivity. Besides BBC there are also other radio and TV broadcasting authorities. Unlike the press which is free in Britain, radio and TV broadcasting have always been subject to some state control.
The communication media of Great Britain, press, broadcasting and TV are among the most influential in the world. There are four „quality dailies“, The Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Daily Telegraph which contain a great variety of national and international news, reports from parliamentary debates, reviews of the arts, features about fashion and sport and business news.

They present different political views and orientations but they are not organs of political parties. The Times is the most famous of them all. I tis not a government newspaper as many foreigners believe. The Times is an independent paper which brings long, serious editorials presenting independent views on politics. The Daily Telegraph is a right-wing paper, read mostly by those people whose political opinions are Conservative. The Guardian is in general  a paper of the left.  It is socialist in its orientation. THe Financial Times publishes business news. Beside „quality papers“ (serious papers) there are the papers with a very high circulation such as the Daily Mirror and the Sun which belong to „popular papers“ (tabloids). They hardly publish any serious material. The articles mostly deal with sex scandals and Money, then there are advertisements, competitions about pop stars and some home news. The „popular papers“ frequently use pictures, cartoons and humorous drawings reacting to some political events. There is no censorship of press in Great Britain but the editors of newspapers are responsible for what they publish. Nearly all papers pay special attention to the reporting of sports. The evening newspapers are very popular because they bring the most recent results of games, competitions and races or tips for those that are still to be held or run.

The largest daily newspapers published in the USA are The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Daily News, USA Today and many others. All of these are very serious „quality papers“. The New York Times is ranked as „the world´s  top daily“. The US Constitution guarantees freedom of press both on the federal and state level. The power of press in the USA is enermous. The press stimulated the rise and fall of several political figures in coverage of the Watergate scandal forced president Nixon to resign from his Office. 

There is a great number and variety of different types of radio and TV stations in the USA. All radio and television stations in the USA, public or private, educational or commercial, large and small must be licensed to broadcast by the Federal Communication Commision which is an independent federal agency. Each license is given for a few years only and can be taken away if a radio or TV station does not keep the regulation of the FCC.

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