Journalism
The collective name for the group of seven factors that journalists and editors consider when deciding which stories to publish or broadcast.
What are "news values"?
These are "acts, statutes, or laws that have been passed by Parliament or a provincial legislature".
What is legislation?
This is the term used to describe an industry sector dominated by a small number of large corporations.
What is oligopoly?
Globalization refers to the worldwide mobility of people, capital, commodities, information and images, and this.
What is culture?
These Regulations are in place to help Canadian musicians get heard by Canadian audiences.
What are Canadian Content Regulations?
This is what happens when journalists, in the interests of "balance", try to portray two unequally valid sides to a story as equally valid (such as hosting a debate between someone who agrees with the broad scientific consensus on climate change, and someone who does not).
What is "false equivalence"?
The Broadcasting Act assigns responsibility for creating Regulations affecting media to this government agency.
What is the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)?
Labour, Technology, Capital, and Material Resources.
What are the four categories of resources any media company must control in order to function?
According to World Systems Theory, these two things are the two main "products" of countries on the "periphery" of the global economy.
What are cheap labour and raw materials?
CANCON rules no longer apply (mainly) to this medium.
What is television?
This is the "news value" that describes where stories refer to the cultural or geographic relevance of a story for a particular media audience.
What is "proximity"?
This is a trend in international trade which results in "pressures from other countries and corporations to allow more foreign investment and cultural products to flow into Canada", and has had a significant shaping effect on Canadian media policies since the 1920s.
What is trade liberalization?
This "hidden grasper" is used by Adam Smith to describe how market freedoms make the world a better place for everyone.
What is the "invisible hand" of the market?
This idea refers to how centers of cultural production tend to dominate other, culturally peripheral parts of the world through media and information.
What is the "media imperialism" thesis?
A song has been entirely written (both music and lyrics) by an American, but its recording is of a live performance in Canada by a Canadian musician. The song is, thus, this.
What is Canadian Content?
The "news values" approach to understanding journalism ignores this.
What is "how stories are constructed or told" (or "how news is branded and packaged as a commodity")?
This is the statute that sets out the mandates for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
What is the Broadcasting Act?
"Waa Waa! I need my bottle, nanny state!", say these, "to protect me from big foreign bully competitors!"
What are "infant industries"?
According to this interpretation of the global cultural economy, core and peripheral regions of the world experience a "trade imbalance".
What is cultural dependency?
This is the main source of government assistance for films made in Canada, whether by Canadian or foreign filmmakers or companies.
What are tax credits?
This conception of journalism as a practiced art refers to "how through words, images, sounds, and story themes, journalists provide context for a representation of reality."
What is framing?
This historic principle of telecommunications (which is used to guarantee equal levels of telephone service at equal cost) is closely related to the idea of "network neutrality".
What is common carriage?
Up, up, and away! This term refers to the concentration of firms within a
specific business that extends a company's control over the entire process of production.
What is vertical integration?
For this reason, we may have cause to doubt both "media imperialism" and "cultural dependency" as useful ideas.
What is the fact that production at the periphery is often highly influential (or that there are more than one center of global media production, such as Bollywood)?
The vast majority of commercial movie screens in Canada are owned by this corporation.
What is Cineplex?