Akinobu N
Please tell me, and how is another languages like Chinese, Korean?
Here in Japan, learning English is a kind of duty to school students :)
Answer
Japanese was more popular in the early 90s when Japan had its economic boom and everyone thought they were going to take over business, but then Japan hit a recession and lots of people lost interest.
The good news is, Japanese is becoming more popular because of the influx of translated manga and anime. Teenagers want to learn Japanese so that they can read the original manga, or understand what they're favorite anime characters are saying.
Only a few high schools offer Japanese courses. Lots of colleges do, but not all of them. Spanish much more useful in this country, so schools tend to focus on that.
Japanese was more popular in the early 90s when Japan had its economic boom and everyone thought they were going to take over business, but then Japan hit a recession and lots of people lost interest.
The good news is, Japanese is becoming more popular because of the influx of translated manga and anime. Teenagers want to learn Japanese so that they can read the original manga, or understand what they're favorite anime characters are saying.
Only a few high schools offer Japanese courses. Lots of colleges do, but not all of them. Spanish much more useful in this country, so schools tend to focus on that.
Are news stories and newspaper headlines made up to promote causes or make money?
tatereatin
Do news companies report things based off of their head honchos ulterior motives or biases more now than they did before? Is there anyone that works in the business that knows that this kind of stuff goes on? Is there evidence out there that would indicate that stuff like this happens regularly?
Answer
Journalists and news organizations, with few exceptions, do not make up news. But they do cover or refuse to cover certain stories based upon the potential to generate public interest. There are of course cases wherein the journalists is an activists for a certain cause and/or reports or refuses to report a story based upon personal and/or organizational biases. But news organizations are not micro-managed by their corporate owners. They are businesses and like any business and their product is ânews.â These organizations use ânewsâ to get into the business of journalism and thereby gain 1st Amendment protection for their ânewsâ content even though they may be serving other interests. There is no such thing as an objective news source nor has there ever been. The Western concept of âfree pressâ has been used to great advantage by Socialists and other demagogues for the dissemination of propaganda under the guise of ânews.â
The main goal of a news organization is to generate ad revenue. Ad revenue is based upon circulation (print) and ratings (broadcast/radio). If you provide your target audience with the type of content and analyses they expect you guarantee your potential advertisers a certain level of potential customers. The advertisers, unless forced by popular opinion or political considerations, will willingly support any news organization that delivers customers for its products/services. Now some people who understand this will immediately tout the benefits of ânon-commercialâ news. But this is also governed by its ability to appeal to the target audience and it is driven by the same biases that affect commercial news.
You might want to see:
Coloring the News by William McGowan
Breaking the News by James Fallows
Journalistic Fraud by Bob Kohn
What Liberal Media? By Eric Alterman
Bias by Bernard Goldberg
Arrogance by Bernard Goldberg
Journalists and news organizations, with few exceptions, do not make up news. But they do cover or refuse to cover certain stories based upon the potential to generate public interest. There are of course cases wherein the journalists is an activists for a certain cause and/or reports or refuses to report a story based upon personal and/or organizational biases. But news organizations are not micro-managed by their corporate owners. They are businesses and like any business and their product is ânews.â These organizations use ânewsâ to get into the business of journalism and thereby gain 1st Amendment protection for their ânewsâ content even though they may be serving other interests. There is no such thing as an objective news source nor has there ever been. The Western concept of âfree pressâ has been used to great advantage by Socialists and other demagogues for the dissemination of propaganda under the guise of ânews.â
The main goal of a news organization is to generate ad revenue. Ad revenue is based upon circulation (print) and ratings (broadcast/radio). If you provide your target audience with the type of content and analyses they expect you guarantee your potential advertisers a certain level of potential customers. The advertisers, unless forced by popular opinion or political considerations, will willingly support any news organization that delivers customers for its products/services. Now some people who understand this will immediately tout the benefits of ânon-commercialâ news. But this is also governed by its ability to appeal to the target audience and it is driven by the same biases that affect commercial news.
You might want to see:
Coloring the News by William McGowan
Breaking the News by James Fallows
Journalistic Fraud by Bob Kohn
What Liberal Media? By Eric Alterman
Bias by Bernard Goldberg
Arrogance by Bernard Goldberg
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