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Assignment:
Do you consider John Oliver an entertainer or a journalist (or a mix of both)? Explain. Support your explanation with specific ideas discussed regarding both the genres of entertainment and news/journalism. Additionally, be sure to incorporate at least one sub-genre of entertainment or news covered in your answer. Use complete sentences.
Speaking of science in the news . . . use any two (of the four) hard news guidelines described to explain the likelihood that a scientific study will be covered as hard news. Specifically, identify the guideline, describe it, and then briefly explain how this guideline might be employed to determine whether a scientific study should be covered as hard news. Incorporate a hypothetical example of a study in each explanation to demonstrate what you mean. Note: You do not need to use or refer to the John Oliver clip for this one.
[Using complete sentences, explain how this guideline might be employed to determine whether a scientific study will be covered by the news. Incorporate a hypothetical example that demonstrates what you mean.]
[Using complete sentences, explain how this guideline might be employed to determine whether a scientific study will be covered by the news. Incorporate a hypothetical example that demonstrates what you mean.]
Provide the definition of "soft news" given (use the definition given in the left-hand margin of the text). Then, using the John Oliver clip, provide one example of a news story about a scientific study that would fall into the subgenre of soft news and explain why it qualifies as an example of soft news. Use complete sentences.
In the John Oliver segment, you saw some examples of how news outlets often oversimplify the results of scientific studies in their coverage. Based on what you learned at the beginning of Ch about the business aspect of media industries (and specifically, what is required for them to "exist"), what most likely motivates media outlets to present the results of scientific studies in an oversimplified (and thus, sometimes misleading) manner? How might oversimplifying things help news outlets? Use complete sentences to explain/flesh out your answer.