Talk:Mainstream media

The United Kingdom
In England, during 1922, after the closure of many radio stations, the British Broadcasting Company started it's first daily radio transmission and started to grow an audience. Later that John Reith, a Scottish engineer, would be appointed the first General Manager for the BBC. Later on January 1, 1927 the BBC was fully established by Royal Charter and renamed the British Broadcasting Corporation with Reith as the first Director-General. During November of 1936 the BBC began to expand into television broadcasting and was the first broadcaster to start the trend of a regularly scheduled TV service.

Today the BBC is one of two chartered public broadcasting companies companies in the United Kingdom. The second is ITV, Independent Television, which was established in 1955 as the first public commercial television company after the Television act of 1954 in an effort to break up the monopoly of the monopoly the BBC had on television broadcasting, gaining fifteen regional broadcasting licenses in less than twenty years. Today the BBC and ITV are the two free to air digital services offered to everyone in the United Kingdom and each others biggest competitors. The BBC has nine national television channels, BBC three, the first channel to switch from television to online, an interactive channel, ten national and forty local radio stations, BBC Online, and BBC Worldwide. ITV currently holds thirteen of the fifteen regional broadcasting licenses in the United Kingdom that carries their multiple channels including ITV, ITVhub, ITV2, ITVBe, ITV 3, ITV4,CITV, ITV Encore, Britbox, a video-on-demand service in collaboration with the BBC to bring British television content to the United States and Canada, and Cirkus, their own video-on-demand service.

ChristopherQuinn804 (talk) 04:50, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

This is all very accurate, but I fail to see its relevance. Besides, it's out of date. Now that all television transmission and reception in the UK is digital, the BBC and ITV no longer constitute an exclusive class. Other channels are free to view — including Sky News, which would seem pretty important in the discussion of corporate ownership.DavidCrosbie (talk) 01:59, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Analysis
With this critique I will be analyzing the mainstream media page and providing suggestions that could maybe help make it better.The only source I saw for the mainstream media definition was Z Magazine. After looking up Z Magazine I discovered that this source is reliable, but there could be better options or more options. If looking for an exact definition of mainstream media, the Oxford Dictionary is a reliable source. If someone is looking for just a discussion about mainstream media there are ones available at The Washington Post which is a reliable news website. The link to Z Magazine does work but takes you to the wikipedia definition of it, not the actual website. I am not sure if there is any plagiarism or close paraphrasing because I could not find the exact article that the information came from. There is a bias that comes along with this source and that bias is noted. Mostly everything in the article is relevant and nothing really distracted me, the only thing I would make take out is the United Kingdom section. For the most part this article is neutral, it does mention media bias but the article itself does not show a bias side. The viewpoints seem to be at a happy media I did not find anything that was overrepresented or underrepresented For the mainstream media information it seems to be very out of date considering the source says its from October 1997. There could be more information added about what mainstream media is and how it has an impact on people. Joy590 (talk) 21:31, 20 February 2019 (UTC) Joy Martin

These are my opinions on what has been written on this page thus far and what can be improved to make the article more reliable and accurate.
I do believe that each fact is referenced with an appropriate source depending on what is being talked about. I know because I clicked through some of them and went through the site to see if it is appropriate for what the sentence was about. But there are some sources that need to be cited for some sentences and I need to take my time to find the right sources for them. The links do work because I clicked through the majority of them. These sources mostly come from either political, academic or news websites and there is one essay by Noam Chomsky. I believe that this essay might be a little biased because Chomsky is talking about his perspective on what makes the mainstream media mainstream. I do believe that everything in the article is relevant because it talks about the other terms for mainstream media, how media works and/or started in the United States, the kinds of media outlets owned by the Big Five, and how important BBC is in the UK. None of these distracted me from the rest of the article. This article seems to be neutral because I do not see any bias viewpoints of mainstream media. I only see facts regarding different types of media in the US and the UK. There are no viewpoints that are either overrepresented or underrepresented. I would say the only information that I see is out of date simply because of the year it was posted is the essay by Noam Chomsky. It was written in 1997. Therefore some of the things that he wrote might be out of date because we know a lot more about media now than he knew in 1997, but some of the concepts can still be the same.Isadoraalpino (talk) 17:22, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Review
I think adding in facts and numbers backing up a claim really adds to the article as well as the addition of the monopoly. Ashleybedard (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:20, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Article Draft (adding to "Recent media mergers in the United States" section)
I believe that the last sentence of that section is too similar to the article that it was taken from. Therefore, I have a way to re-word it along with some additional information for that section:

50 different companies used to own 90% of the media in America back in the 1980s. Now only five media conglomerates own that 90% of media. The kind of media includes books, radio, movies, newspapers and more. Due to the great amount of media ownership, these five conglomerates have the power to control the information that goes out to the general public.

1. Brian. “6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America.” Morris Creative Group, 26 Feb. 2016, www.morriscreative.com/6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america/.

2. Levy, Alison Rose. “The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content.” Common Dreams, 17 Sept. 2019, www.commondreams.org/views/2019/09/17/incredible-belief-corporate-ownership-does-not-influence-media-content.

3. Sommer, Eric. “How Five American Companies Control What You Think.” RT International, 14 May 2014, www.rt.com/op-ed/158920-us-ukraine-media-control/.

4. Shafer, Jack. “The Media Monotony.” Slate Magazine, Slate, 4 Aug. 2004, slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/08/the-media-monotony.html.

Isadoraalpino (talk) 03:22, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

A possibly useful source that was published today.
What is ‘the mainstream media,’ anyway? from Columbia Journalism Review. --Aquillion (talk) 18:58, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Today, the media is a bit more complex. It is more complicated than newspapers and local TV. Since the early 2000s, media has expanded its spectrum from traditional media to a more fragmented and narrow media landscape. These big companies are run by corporations and hire trained journalists to cover the news, editors to ensure the quality of the news, and media staff to present the news coverage on a variety of channels/platforms. [1] There is a spread of false information in the media, so most mainstream media outlets adopt a set of values or ethics that are core to their mission. These ethics ensure that journalists seek truth and report it, minimize harm, act independently, and are accountable and transparent. [2] Consumers get their information from a variety of sources, and some don’t know that some sources may not be considered mainstream media. When asked if Vox is part of mainstream media, 65% of American adults didn’t know. [3] Whether or not a media source is considered mainstream is debatable, content such as a blog may have a difference in the process of coverage selection than mainstream media such as CNN. [4] [1] “What Is Mainstream Media?” Maryville Online, 24 June 2021, https://online.maryville.edu/blog/what-is-mainstream-media/. [2] “Fake News vs. Real News: Mainstream Media.” LibGuides, https://library.nwacc.edu/fakenews/mainstream. [3] Shearer, Elisa, and Amy Mitchell. “Broad Agreement in U.S. – Even among Partisans – on Which News Outlets Are Part of the 'Mainstream Media'.” Pew Research Center, Pew Research Center, 19 May 2021, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/05/07/broad-agreement-in-u-s-even-among-partisans-on-which-news-outlets-are-part-of-the-mainstream-media/. [4] Lin, Yu-Ru, et al. “Bias in Social and Mainstream Media.” OpenSIUC, https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/pn_wp/56/. Sashness (talk) 02:46, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Australia
Mainstream media in Australia, especially the extreme concentration of ownership, may be a very useful addition. --Wickey (talk) 15:08, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

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