English
1006T
23 September 2003
"The Missing News" Again
Here are three passages from the article (which is at http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/articles/article213.html)
that people in the class suggested might be rewritten to change their
"spin." Try a rewrite of each. We'll talk about some
alternatives.
More notably, the filtering
effects of pressure from advertisers was not widely acknowledged in the
interviews: only a few journalists intimated otherwise, suggesting that
people in news media always have to be concerned about biting the hand
that feeds them. (click here for some alternative phrasings)
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Rather, it is a process of
socialization, something that reporters and editors learn and
"internalize on the job."
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Another reporter argued
that, because newspaper owners come from the ranks of the affluent, it
is unlikely that they will be interested in adopting editorial stances
that criticize business or challenge the privileged place of affluent
Canadians in shaping public policy.
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