4.4 Organisational routines (FATSID)
Topic 4.4 The Selection and Presentation of the News
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- Created on: 03-01-22 00:17
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- FATSID
- Financial Costs
- Williams- cutting costs has severely undermined the quality of investigative journalism
- reduced to digging up dirt and revealing secrets about celeb private lives
- change from news to infotainment is a threat to culture and democracy
- blurs distinction between fact and fiction
- Davies- infotainment is attractive to media companies- attracts large audiences= advertising revenue
- Williams- cutting costs has severely undermined the quality of investigative journalism
- Audience
- pluralists- news content and presentation style reflects social characteristics of newspaper readers
- e.g. Newsround= short, snappy, aimed at young people
- lunchtime broadcast= viewed by stay at home parent- 'domestic' items receive more coverage
- Time/Space
- only limited space available so some stories need to be excluded according to whether they fit the time or space available
- e.g. BBC- 15 items over a 25-30 minute period
- e.g. Channel 4= 1 hr so items are more detailed and in depth
- newspapers have fixed amounts of space for each category
- Source (journalistic ethics)
- Lord Justice Levenson concluded that phone hacking was common and encouraged by editors
- New international admitted that the hacking of voicemails by journalists employed by the News of the World newspaper was a common practice which sparked widespread outrage
- PCC (Press Complaint Commission's) sign all British newspapers- no legal powers to punish behaviour
- Ofcom is responsible for protecting people
- Immediacy
- events with sound and live film footage are more likely to be reported
- adds dramatic reality
- e.g. BBC News 24 which uploads news to apps received by smartphones
- Deadlines
- TV reports news as it happens
- newspapers focus on previous day's news
- Financial Costs
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