Selection and presentation of news

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  • Created on: 02-12-16 14:25
What does McQuail say about the contruction of news?
Just because it is a story doesn't mean it has to become news. News is the result of a selective process.
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What is ment by news values?
The criteria for news to be printed for example - Continuity, negativity and threshold.
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What is a spin doctor and what influence can they have?
Major groups that try and input their ideology within all the papers. Some stories are clearly constructed to point at one side.
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What is ment by citizen journalism?
The increase of digital technology has lead to more people posting and commenting online.
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What is ment by organisational or bureaucratic routines?
The rules that exist within a particular organisation. Fancial costs, time and space, deadline, immediacy and the audience.
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What does Keeble and Mair say about journalist ethics?
The phone hacking scandel is a show of how journalists treat the news and other people.
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What does the marxist perspective say on the selection of news.
McChesney argues that the big powerful owners are able to influence and manipulate the news. Big powerful businesses are seen as reliable where as poor groups arn't.
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What does Hall a neo-marxists say?
It supports capitalism because the higher more powerful groups has better access to media insitutions.
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What is ment by moral panic?
A focus on a particular group and creating a negative stereotype about them. This leads people to believe all of the group will be like that.
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