Media Ownership Homework: Week 5

Main issues the video presents:

• Most people get their knowledge on politics from the media, especially from TV.
• Critical journalists have caused a huge impact on Scottish people, and how they view Scottish politics due to their negative press.
• Relationships between the media and politicians are ambiguous, they need each other but are suspicious of each other.
• If you took the media out of politics, all the public would be clueless to whats going on, and the people who are in power would probably abuse it, taking advantage of the fact that no one is watching them.
• Owners of media have their own motifs for writing or saying something, and it could be conveying their own political opinions.
• Sometimes the newspapers and journalists become the campaigners, Peterhead prison avoided closure due to Scotland's most politically influential newspaper. On occasions like this, the media made the difference.
• When the newspapers and public get together, it is a powerful combination that politicians cant ignore.