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Media circus is a pejorative description of the media. The term is an idiom and not an objective observation. For those who use it, the term describes a news event where the media coverage is perceived to be out of proportion to the event being covered, such as the number of reporters at the scene, the amount of news media published or broadcast, and the level of media hype. Media hype, orgy and frenzy are similar term used in reference to a critique of news and entertainment media. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with pejoration. ...
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The term media circus began to appear around the mid 1970s. An early example is from the 1976 book by author Lynn Haney, in which she says "Their courtship, after all, had been a media circus".[1] A few years later The Washington Post had a similar courtship example in when it said "Princess Grace herself is still traumatized by the memory of her own media-circus wedding to Prince Rainier in 1956."[2] The term has become increasingly popular with time since the 1970s. The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C.. It is also one of the citys oldest papers, having been founded in 1877. ...
Reasons for being critical of the media are as varied as the people who use the term. However, at the core of most criticism is that there may be a significant opportunity cost when other more important news issues get less public attention as a result of coverage of the hyped issue. In economics, opportunity cost, or economic cost, is the cost of something in terms of an opportunity forgone (and the benefits which could be received from that opportunity), or the most valuable forgone alternative (or highest-valued option forgone), i. ...
Events Events described as a media circus include: Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1650 KB) News media satellite up-link trucks outside the Prudential Financial Building in Newark, New Jersey following the announcement of a terrorist threat by the Office of Homeland Security. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1650 KB) News media satellite up-link trucks outside the Prudential Financial Building in Newark, New Jersey following the announcement of a terrorist threat by the Office of Homeland Security. ...
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- In the United States:
- David Gelman, Peter Greenberg, et al in Newsweek on January 31, 1977: "Brooklyn born photographer and film producer Lawrence Schiller managed to make himself the sole journalist to witness the execution of Gary Gilmore in Utah....In the Gilmore affair, he was like a ringmaster in what became a media circus, with sophisticated newsmen scrambling for what he had to offer."[3]
- The Blizzard of '96 (1996). "...this storm ...so hyped by the media in the same way that the O.J. Simpson trial became hyped as the "Trial of the Century." (Elizabeth Davis, The Daily Beacon, January 12 1996).[1]
- The trial of Martha Stewart (2004). "The stone-faced Stewart never broke stride as she cut a path through the media circus." (Newsweek, "Martha's Fall", March 15 2005 [2]).
- In Australia:
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References - ^ Lynn Haney (1976). Chris Evert, the Young Champion.
- ^ Washington Post B1, June 29, 1978. This is the oldest quote the Oxford English Dictionary has listed, although obviously there are older occurrences.
- ^ Gelman, David, Greenberg, Peter S. et al, "Ringmaster at the circus," Newsweek. New York: Jan. 31, 1977. Vol.89, Iss. 5; pg. 77. Source type: Periodical. ISSN: 00289604. ProQuest document ID: 1098541. Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1098541&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=76566&RQT=309&VName=PQD (subscription) retrieved Dec. 20, 2006
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