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Disruption: Business News Coverage of Netflix and Amazon’s Award Winning Shows

Presenters

Ernest A Hakanen
Jonathon Lundy

Abstract

First it was the cable channels, now Netflix and Amazon’s self-produced series are winning awards! Surprised business journalists grasp to explain it as “real television” or not, threats to traditional television, audience stealing, the future, etc. This paper is a discourse analysis of news about awards won by these new “channels.” CNBC and Fox Business were used because they employ analysis, not just information, and traditional television networks own them.