JournaLists DeaTh RaTe Highest EvEr in 2006

This year is the deadliest on record for journalists and media workers, with 75 deaths to date, the World Association of Newspapers said today.

This was already three more than the 72 journalists killed during the whold of 2004, WAN said.

Journalists continue to be targeted and murdered in Iraq, with 26 dying in the conflict there.

"Journalists in Iraq are not only facing the danger that comes with working in a war zone, they are being hunted down and assassinated simply because they are suspected of cooperating with western news agencies, because of their religious or political affiliation, or because their murderers believe that killing journalists will advance their aims," said the WAN chief executive, Timothy Balding.

"Journalism today is more dangerous than ever," he said. "More than 500 journalists have been killed in the past decade, often for simply doing their jobs.

"These murders are a direct attack not only on individuals, but also on society as a whole. Yet few of the killers are ever brought to justice."

Eight journalists died in the Philippines - where criminal gangs and corrupt politicians target investigative journalists without fear of prosecution - while six died in Guyana.

Paris-based WAN, the global newspaper industry organisation, began keeping records of journalist murders in 1997 and bases figures on all media workers killed in the line of duty or targeted because of their work.

MY CoMmEnTs... If the number of Journalists been killed is increasing.. i dnt understand why the news company send them out their in the first place. Having a live cam linked to the place would be easier than to have a actual person standing there and reporting back. They are becoming targets and countries like Iraq are making examples of these innocent people. The big news companies such as Sky news need to consider whether they should send their reporters there. Journalism is becoming dangerous.

LiNks To MeDia InStiStuTioNS..

http://harveen-media.blogspot.com/

I researched deeply into Disney and i found out by looking at Harveen's blog that the instistution she focused on, Sky, was some how linked to Disney. Sky caters to many different people around the world. It has over 400 channels and Disney channel is one of them. SKy broadcasts four disney channels. Disney Channel it self, Disney Channel+1 and Disney Cinemagic. These channels are for all the disney fans. IT shows, cartoons, family sitcoms and films for everyone at 7pm.


http://dinni001.blogspot.com/
I took a look at Dinni's blog and linked my institution to the one she did. Dinni researched on Dreamworks. Dreamsworks is a somewhat competition to Disney as they produced Shrek in 2002.Disney is well knownm for their animations and when Dreamwords produced this it was a big outcome as it was a guhe sucess. It started in 2000 when dreamwords created a new business division Dreamworks Animation that will regurarly produce both types of animationfeature films. The traditionally animated feature films were produced by the division's Southern California branch. DreamWorks SKG acquired majority interest (90%) in PDI, reforming it into PDI/DreamWorks, the Northern California branch of its new business division

GloBaLiSaTiOn...

MeDia Organations aree growing rapidly and are able to reach more and more people around the world. This means that they can reach people internationally then just nationally like they could before. Advanced telecommunications are expanding the market which allows them to merge into global culture and new media and genres are developing as part of this global culture.

New Technologies are brought out into the market which allows people to interact and communicate with people more efficently. For exaple text messenging, e-mailing and telephone. These new media is reshaping people's lives and their expectations.

As the technology continues to evolve and media organisations continie to converage, we are moving towards environment in which all our meua will be accessed via a single device, creating new froms of interactions.

Our cultural perceptions are primarily constucted by the medua, So we receive the values and ideolgies they establish. This is called Cultural Homogenisation.

Critics Argue that the current Us media domination amounts cultural imperialism because it forces Us culture on the audience. This can be seen damaging as not everything in the media is true. It all depends on how an individual peceives it.

Marshall Mcluhan, a media critic stated in the 60's that the world had become a global village. Other crtitics argue that the medias reflect and create the social and cultural world we live in because media prducers construct our views of all these global events and therefore construct our values and ideologies. Media is now an essential part of many people's everyday life.

A TV STAR IS BORN. BUT NOT EVERYBODY IS HAPPY...

The first televised natural birth is to be screened live next weekend from a British hospital, prompting concerns about patient safety as reality TV moves into medically uncharted territory.

A group of expectant mothers have agreed with Endemol, the makers of Big Brother, to be filmed giving birth naturally, without pain relief. The programme will be shown next Sunday evening on Channel 5 in a two-hour special that the makers say 'celebrates the miracle of childbirth'. It will be extended until midnight if the woman giving birth spends a long time in labour.

But staff within the hospital, as well as the Royal College of Midwives, have raised objections, warning that having a TV crew there for a live 'performance' makes the birth inherently less safe and will raise the mother's own stress levels, affecting the baby. It is understood that the college is considering launching a formal complaint about the programme. However, the broadcasting watchdog, Ofcom, says it cannot act until after the programme has been transmitted.

The show will raise fresh concerns about how far broadcasters are willing to go to capture large audiences via the drama and excitement of live events. Medical stories, particularly those involving surgery, have proved popular in recent years but some have caused outrage, with critics calling them voyeuristic and ghoulish.

The programme will also feature other items, including the latest techniques for saving babies while they are still in the womb. It will also feature actress Meera Syal and model Nancy Sorrell, who is married to comedian Vic Reeves - both women have recently had children - and will be hosted by the sports presenter Gabby Logan, who gave birth to twins over a year ago. 'I'm thrilled to be presenting the show,' she said. 'I had the most amazing experience when I gave birth to my twins.... That was an emotional roller-coaster and I imagine that's a little what this programme is going to be like.'

Some parent groups were also unhappy about the move. Belinda Phipps, chair of the National Childbirth Trust, said: 'There is absolutely no need to film this live, other than pushing up the TV ratings of course. The one thing you don't want when you're in labour is someone there with a camera and lights. And what on earth are they going to do if there is any kind of complication?

Executive producer Elaine Hackett said: 'We don't know yet if there will be someone who starts going into labour next Sunday evening, but we hope to be able to show the joys of natural childbirth. We will film as much as possible and we will certainly show the mother and her baby coming out of her. Our teams are very experienced and they know if there was the slightest problem, they would stop filming immediately.

My CoMmenTs...
I think that there is no need to film a live child birth. Children and Adults are aware of how a child is conceived. So what is the actual need of this programme. I believe that they are only doing this to boost up their ratings and dont really care about the child. There can be complications as they said..