What affects the content of the news
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- Created by: Jess Emmerson
- Created on: 13-12-12 12:20
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- What affects the content of the news
- Organisational pressures and time schedules
- Assumptions and ideology of journalists
- Stereotyping of groups i.e. women, and black people
- Innacurate/false reporting
- Hieracrhy of credibility
- Sensationalism - overdramatic reporting
- Power of primary definers
- News values of journalists
- Global competition and marketing
- Presentation - degree of importance, use of headlines etc
- Norm-setting - reinforcing conformist behaviour
- Agenda-setting and gate-keeping - telling the public what to think
- Need to attract readers and advertisers leading to a desire not to offend anyone
- Direct control/influence of owners
- The dominant ideology - establishing reasonable views/explanations of the world
- Making a profit
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