Big Brother In The Media

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in producing a media frenzy for the sponsors, products, and companies that it chooses to promote. There will always be different views of the show in all news treatments no matter what subject of topic is at issue.
My thesis on the subject of Big Brother is that print articles report and represent Big Brother as a market commodity for an audience to read about, follow and decide whether to buy the products involved.
The simple term commodity describes Big Brother in a way that is easily viewed by when the show is evaluated. The definition of commodity is something useful that can be turned to commercial or other advantage: Such as “Left-handed, power-hitting third basemen are a rare commodity in the big leagues” (Steve Guiremand).
To some media items this is exactly how the show is depicted amongst them.

There are different variations amongst the different media items. The first Australian media item that I will be looking at is an article from The Australian dated May 2 – May 8. ...

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The article undoubtedly focuses on the arising conflicts that the show has arisen among the fans of the show. The article appears to have issues against the sites immoral attitudes, as they seem to believe. The article is highly unbalanced and bias with its focus on the negative content on the show as an interview is conducted with the site operator of a site that contains explicit content of the shows online uncut footage of the series.

Another article by The Australian on May 1 is seemingly focusing on the money aspect within the Big Brother television show. This article entitled “Big Brother mag an $800,000 lemon” featured on page 35. The article is demoting Big Brother as it ...

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