Essays on Talk Radio

Morse invented the telegraph in 1844. The telegraph transmitted messages over wires. Edison recording sound on rolls of foil in 1877. The first ever music disks being played on gramophones, which were invented in 1888 by Berlinger. In the 1890’s the telegraph became wireless due to Guglielmo Marconi. In 1905 Reginald Fessenden creates the first Christmas Eve radio broadcast that uses voices. The Radio Corporation of America worked to develop radio as a medium for communication. In 1920 KDKA in Pittsburgh implemented the first radio station. Companies like AT&T, General Electric, United Fruit Company and Westinghouse bought patents ...

Essay 1. Media ownership in America has been growing smaller because the market has grown in concentration, with a few oligopolies controlling most of the market share. There are at least three different forms of ownership that are realized by this concentration including chains, broadcasting networks, and media conglomerates. A company which owns several newspapers is a chain. Gannett Company is one of the largest chains in the United States today, owning over 80 newspapers (Blagi 47). Broadcast networks are radio and or television stations that offered scheduled programming. The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) currently regulates broadcast network ownership ...

The information about policies that the public needs to know should be truthful and free of bias as much as possible as these information shape public opinion and even electoral decision. The presentation of the factual and unbiased information about policies is most of the time the responsibility of media as politicians are subject to their political beliefs and stand on the specific issue. The media, as the Fourth Estate, should present this information in such a way there could be clarity and understanding between the government officials and the constituents. There has been a lot of information published regarding ...

In the first point of the article, the author says that Talk radio's listeners are disproportionately old and male. I agree with this point because most of the young and medium-aged people are out there working, which means they have less time to listen to talk radio shows. Most young people are interested in reading articles and watching television shows, but not listening to talk radio shows. In radio programs nowadays, most shows are conservative talk programs and political talk shows. The expected audience in political shows is elder people, especially men as women are busy running other errands. ...

- Pitch Perfect - Identify the Climax: The climax of the movie was the part wherein the protagonist, and the other members of her band, the Barden Bellas, made it into the intercollegiate a capella competition’s finals to fight once again after suffering from an embarrassing and devastating loss the previous year. In the climax, the Barden Bellas came in to fight, once again, their long-time rival, an all-male a capella singing group from the same university, in the competition’s finals. The outcome of the climax was a win for the Barden Bellas in the singing competition. - ...

Question: Write an Essay on The Fairness Doctrine.

Discuss its origins and its demise The Fairness Doctrine originates from a premise that radio broadcasters should not just present one side of any controversial issue. The doctrine was not formalized until 1941, but the FCC did go ahead and revoke the licenses of several licenses for being ‘unfair’ in the way they presented controversial issues (Sandman et al. 1972). Sandman records that there was even a radio station that lost its license just for running editorials. When the Fairness Doctrine was formalized in 1941, these are the major principles that were crystallized, as recorded by Sandman (1972): ...