The communication and mediation of information and news has, under the latest decades, increased into an incalculable amount. In the newsflow that has come up it has become more and more urgent to sort and select the relevant and correct news. Simultaneously as the information has become one of the most important goods for the western world, the criticism against media has become more loudvoiced and especially the criticism aims at the fact that publicness has become less public and the public conversation is nowadays filtrated through media. The American Joey Skaggs can be reckoned among with the group of media critics, but his course of action and methods to reach out with his critical view, stand out strikingly from the traditional media critics. Instead of, as most, aiming the criticism against media, from an outside perspective, Skaggs chooses to attack the media from the inside.

Problem/Bakgrund: Dagligen får vi i Sverige ta del av nyhetsvåldet genom TV, radio och press. Hur upplever vi detta?Nyhetsproducenter och mediefolk framför hur viktigt det är att vara upplysta, men samtidigt lyfter Mediekritiker fram skadliga effekter med våldsexponeringen. Väldigt få studier har gjorts i Sverige om hur vi upplever verkligt medievåld, dvs. inte fiktivt våld som visas i filmer och serier.