4.4 News Values
Topic 4.4 The Selection and Presentation of the news
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- Galtung & Holmboe-Ruge News Values
- Spencer-Thomas defines this as general guidelines that determine the worth of a news story
- Extraordinariness
- rare, unpredictable events
- e.g. disasters, celebrity deaths
- Michael Jackson, Amy Whinehouse
- Threshold
- the 'bigger' the event size, the more likely it is to be nationally reported
- e.g. national newspapers report murder, rarely street robberies
- Unambiguity
- more likely to report events that are easy to understand rather than those that are open to interpretation
- The Columbia Journalism Review (2000)- stories don't appear as they're 'too complicated for the average person'
- more likely to report events that are easy to understand rather than those that are open to interpretation
- Reference to elite persons
- those at the top of the socio-economic hierarchy are seen as more newsworthy
- celeb gossip is increasingly in the tabloids
- 'cult of celebrity' has extended the definition of who counts as worthy of pubic interests
- Personalisation
- events are 'personalised' by associating an individual with them, more likey to be reported
- journalists try to reduce complex events and policies to a conflict between 2 personalities
- e.g. British politics is presented as a personal showdown between party leaders
- Reference to elite nations
- cultural proximity - similar audiences receive more news coverage
- events in USA and Australia more likely to be covered in British media rather than Asia
- Frequency
- structural social trends occur slowly and invisibly over a long period- outside frequency
- e.g. inflation only reported when government releases figures
- sudden events= meaning established quicker
- Continuity
- event covered for some time
- news teams in place to report
- previous reportage makes story more accessible to the public
- pluralists believe these values are of crucial importance as news producers are under commercial pressure to increase audience
- Negativity
- more exciting/ dramatic= bigger audience= higher rating
- Composition
- news outlets try to 'balance' reported events
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