1) Is our news influenced by American cultural imperialism? What examples can you think of?
To some extent news has been influenced by American cultural imperialism. This is seen by Sky News' 24 hour channel. CNN were the first news corporation to have featured a 24 hour news channel and this was later copied by Sky News, as they presented a news channel which pretty much had the same layout as CNN news. Another influence seen by American cultural imperialism is award shows such as the Oscar's in contrast to the Brits, famous award show: Oscar's made news worldwide, things such as the Oscar selfie also made worldwide news and was even seen as breaking news on British News.
2) Has the increased globalisation of news improved the audience experience? How? Why?
The increase of globalisation has helped improve news for audiences. The media plays a vital role in helping us experience worldwide news. We are able to view live events such as riots in Ukraine and even sporting events. The Olympics would be a great example for this. The whole world being able to watch a global sporting event is a great thing for audiences and institutions. Increasing globalisation allowed many British TV institutions to broadcast this sporting event. We are also able to see natural disasters happen live due to the globalisation of news and this has vastly improved the audience experience.
3) Has globalisation benefited or damaged major news institutions? How? Why?
Globalisation has both benefited and damaged major news institutions. The benefits of globalisation of major news institutions is that they are able to get news from anywhere. The increase of local journalists in worldwide countries allows major news institutions to get a greater variety of news, this could include natural disasters, or even wars that are currently going on in different countries. The fact that news corporations can get this news as soon as possible, it gives them a major benefit. Even though this is a benefit for major news institutions, this is also very damaging to the local news institutions. Local Gazette paper's for small towns are not able to compete with the quality of news that major institutions are conveying, thus portraying how there is not much time left for the small companies and with the increase of major news institutions, they will be closing down soon.
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