News selections
- Created by: ecotts
- Created on: 30-12-17 18:38
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- News Selection
- Background
- Until the 1990s, the main sources of news in the UK were tabloid and broadsheet newspapers, radio
- Changes
- There was the introduction of 24hr rolling news on satellite Channels
- Specialise sites on the internet
- Social networking
- Bloggers
- Construction of News
- McQuail
- Events happen but this does not mean they become news
- The process of news selection is dependant on...
- 1. News values by organisations
- 2. Bureaucratic constraints/ routines
- 3. Ownership of media organisations
- McQuail
- 1. News Values
- News values define what journalists, editors, and broadcasters consider newsworthy
- Brighton and Foy
- News values are more informal and unconscious
- Thomas
- News values are a general guideline or criteria that determine the worth of the news story and it's prominence
- Brighton and Foy
- Galtung and Ruge
- Extraordinariness
- Rare, unpredictable, shocking
- Charles A Dana= if a dog bites a man, that not news, if a man bites a dog thats news!
- Princess Diana's Death
- Rare, unpredictable, shocking
- Threshold
- Bigger size events, more likely to be reported
- Newspapers report on murder but early on street robberies or burglaries
- Bigger size events, more likely to be reported
- Unambiguity
- Events that are easy to grasp
- Columbia Journalism Review- most stories don't appear is because they are too complex for the average person
- Storm Opheila
- Events that are easy to grasp
- Reference to elite persons/ nations
- Events around famous or powerful people
- Celebrity gossip has increase
- Theresa May shoe fashion
- Events that are culturally similar to the UK
- Brexit
- Stories that relate to cultural proximity; same language, looks cultural values
- Events around famous or powerful people
- Personalisation
- Events that are easily personalised
- If it refers to a prominent individual/ celebrity
- Showdown between two political party leaders; Corbyn, May
- Events that are easily personalised
- Negativity
- Bad/ negative news is more dramatic
- stories on death, violence, damage is rated above positive news
- Storm Ophelia
- Bad/ negative news is more dramatic
- Extraordinariness
- Criticism
- Brighton and Foy
- They only looked at Norwegian papers
- The list was made in 60/70, so it was no longer revelent
- Cultural expectations are different from country to country
- What may be seen as news worthy in one country may not in another
- They only looked at Norwegian papers
- Brighton and Foy
- News values define what journalists, editors, and broadcasters consider newsworthy
- Brighton and Foy
- News values are no longer relevant in the age of spin doctors, churnalism and citizen journalism
- Churnalism
- Davis
- Journalist should be called churnalist because they churn out stories/ facts given to them by the government/ spin doctors
- 80% of stories in tabloid newspapers come from official sources
- They do not use their own news gathering skills
- Journalist should be called churnalist because they churn out stories/ facts given to them by the government/ spin doctors
- The new created may not be accurate as some quote bloggers and get stories of social media
- It is characterised by uniformity which reduces choice available to reader
- Davis
- Spin Doctors
- powerful groups use own influences to shape news stories sympathetic to their cause
- They challenge the idea that all news stories are the product of news values
- They clearly constructed to favour political points
- They challenge the idea that all news stories are the product of news values
- Governments for example have appointed 'Spin Doctors' whose role is to meet journalist
- This is to manage news stories so they are favourable to the government
- powerful groups use own influences to shape news stories sympathetic to their cause
- Citizen Journalsm
- It evolved due to the developments in technology
- Such as smartphones,internet, social media
- The collection, distribution and analysis f news & information by the general public
- Anyone who posts one story, photograph on mainstream news site
- Keen
- However, It offers opinion as fact rumour as reportage and innuendo as information
- It evolved due to the developments in technology
- Churnalism
- News values are no longer relevant in the age of spin doctors, churnalism and citizen journalism
- Background
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