Media and calture- critical review 1- the Public sphere
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Journalism was created for societies need for information; the public sphere is largely contrasted with the private sphere. Public sphere is defined as the part of life that one is interacting with others and society. Jürgen Habermas defined the public sphere as "a network for communicating information and points of view"; to me the public sphere represents the role of society in communicating with each other. Now that we have a clear definition of what the public sphere means.
The art of Journalism falls straight into communicating information and points of view. If the history of Journalism is taken into account, then the need for information must be explored.I have always thought that the role of the media was to officially inform its public, however there are many other areas that enforce the role of the media. For example to sell newspapers, a story needs sensationalism hence a need for “exciting” stories that Journalists what you to read this can also be referred to as soft news. There are many issues to analyse when focuses is put upon media texts such as newspapers, first most media is independent from the state and is given to some extent Freedom of speech, but what is freedom? To put a definition on it could be hard as most people’s ideas of what it means are varied and blurred.

My personal definition of freedom is the right to choose and to not be resisted in any area of our life. Ideology is another issue to explore within the public sphere framework. Ideology is a collection of ideas that is proposed by a particular source. Ideology to some extent can be a good or bad thing- certain people have hidden agendas when expressing their own ideas, especially in Journalism, therefore a certain element of control has to be established when it comes to the things journalists can and cant say- thus media law has to be enforced.
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