News Selection
- Created by: JuliaMabiza
- Created on: 29-10-19 17:59
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- NEWS SELECTION
- Moral Panics
- news exaggerating and dramatising stories e.g gay plague/crime, can also be used as a scapegoat
- Gatekeeping
- having power to cover some issues and not others
- Agenda Setting
- media owners lay down list of subjects that will appear in the news
- Influence of Owners
- owners influences resources and info available in news stories often to ensure they make profit
- Norm Settings
- way the media and news companies reinforces social norms of society
- 1. encouraging conformist behaviour e.g obeying the law
- 2. discouraging non conformist behaviour e.g murder
- Churnalism
- form of journalism which journalists produce news articles based on pre-packaged material in the press(PR).
- Time and Space
- newspaper companies want to be first to get their story out, select certain info to publish due to deadline, select according to space
- Making Profit
- media being ran as a corporate business
- News Values
- Gutland and Ruge
- factors news reporters use to decide if stories are news worthy
- AO3: Globalisation
- today's society global market has enlarged, gaining access to information on different platforms, therefore, we can gain an alternative view from what has been selected in the news
- AO3: Inevitable
- impossible to report on everything in society, so it is inevitable that a selection process will take place
- AO3: Citizen Journalism
- i.e how we make the news e.g recording from your phone and the footage hits the headlines as evidence e.g Lee Rigby murder
- Moral Panics
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