Factors influencing the news
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- Created on: 25-02-19 15:25
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- News Values (factors influencing)
- The News = Social Construction
- Chandler
- News readers and 'neutral' observers
- Body language of newscasters reduced by behind a desk
- Content isn't reassuring but manners are friendly and reassuring
- High-tech studio symbolises science and objective
- McQuail
- News isn't objective or impartial
- socially manufactured
- gatekeepers make choices of what to cover
- Loaded that reflects perspectives of interest groups
- Selection is based on; organisational constraints, values, ownership, ideology and bias
- Chandler
- Organisational Constraints
- Source of - from press agencies / releases from pressure groups, government agencies, private companies
- Finances - sending overseas is expensive also treatment of events in developing countries
- Time and Space - to fit the time available or column space
- Deadlines - tv can bring as it happens but papers stick to deadlines
- Immediacy - sound bites, film footage, reporting live
- Audiences - Five news = short bulletins as young. The sun = working class so simplistic Guardian = middleclass
- News Values
- Spencer - Thomas - general guidelines to say if worthy. Will it attract audience?
- Galtung and Ruge - extraordinary? Threshold - bigger the event? personal - to celebrity? Frequency - murders quick so meaning? Cover continuously? Narritive - present as a story? Bad news is more exciting?
- Ownership, Ideology and Bias
- Is it objective? is the gatekeeper unbiased? is it politically driven?
- Marxism - manipulated to reflect capitalism, concentration on ownership, news sell to wealthy
- Hall - Media has agenda setting
- Neo-Marxism - reflects social backgrounds of media professionals (white,middle class)
- Pluralism - journalists are objective, abuse of power
- Davies - modern British by churnalism - uncritical over-reliance on 'facts' out by government spin doctors and public relations experts
- Postmodernism - had to see what is 'fake news' (Hyper-reality) collapse of meta narratives
- The News = Social Construction
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