News Selections (2)
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- Created on: 31-12-17 13:11
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- News Selection
- 2. Organisational or Bureaucratic Rules
- The planning of collecting news may bias what news is gathered or how it is reported and presented
- It is shown in a number of ways
- Time and Space
- The news has to fit the time given or space in the newspapers such as a column story
- will only appear if they fit the time and space
- The story or event that fits the time period for example on a news show or newspaper column will be newsworthy
- The news has to fit the time given or space in the newspapers such as a column story
- Deadlines
- T.V news can cover the stories as it happens such as 9/11
- However, newspapers have deadlines so they usually focus on the news of the previous day
- This is why newspaper coverage of stories tend to be more detailed and analytical then most T.V coverage
- Immediacy & Actuality
- News with videos and soundbites are more likely to be reported on (newsworthy)as it adds dramatic reality
- New technological advances added a new level of immediacy
- BBC24 can now live stream (labelled breaking news)
- You can also access the news at anytime e.g on your smartphones apps
- The Audience
- Pluralist argue the content of the news and style are a reaction to the type of audience that interact with it
- 5 news is short and snappy as it is aimed at young people
- Tabloid newspapers, The Sun, are aimed at W/C readership so they use simplistic language as they believe this is what they want
- Pluralist argue the content of the news and style are a reaction to the type of audience that interact with it
- Journalist Ethics
- All British newspapers signed up to 'press complaints commissions voluntary code of conduct'
- It insists that the news has to be accurate and not misleading
- However, it is criticised to be not powerful
- PCC has no legal powers to punish any irresponsible media behaviour
- OFCOM is responsible for protecting people from being exposed to harmful/ offensive material
- All British newspapers signed up to 'press complaints commissions voluntary code of conduct'
- Financial Cost
- News gathering is expensive, in the past 10 years there has been a decline in types of journalism such as investigative reporting
- This cost-cutting has had effects of the quality of news
- William
- It undermines the quality of investigative journalism.
- It's said they only gather dirt/ revel secrets about private lives
- Franklin
- It identifies 'infortainment' news
- Information & entertainment
- It is news based on entertainment as it attracts a large audience
- It identifies 'infortainment' news
- William
- 2. Organisational or Bureaucratic Rules
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