TTS Sociology Grade 12

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Across
  1. 1. A large corporation that owns many smaller companies across different industries
  2. 3. Theory arguing media content is shaped by consumer demand and market competition
  3. 8. Marxist view that media owners directly manipulate content for profit
  4. 9. Perspective arguing new media creates new forms of surveillance and control
  5. 11. Baudrillard concept of copies replacing reality with no original existing
  6. 15. The filtering process where editors decide which events become news
  7. 16. A state where representation and reality blur in a media saturated society
  8. 17. Galtung and Ruge criteria used by journalists to judge newsworthiness
  9. 18. Model by Herman and Chomsky explaining how media filters distort news
Down
  1. 2. Cohen concept of exaggerated media reaction causing public panic over a group
  2. 4. Systematic distortion of reality by media to serve powerful interests
  3. 5. Ownership strategy of controlling different media types like print and TV
  4. 6. Gramscian concept where ruling class values become naturalised as common sense
  5. 7. Process where journalists voluntarily suppress news to avoid backlash
  6. 10. News gathered and reported by ordinary citizens using new media tools
  7. 12. The power of the media to dictate what issues the public thinks about
  8. 13. Perspective arguing new media democratises information and empowers users
  9. 14. The suppression or control of media content by state or corporate bodies