News Values
Action Point
How would you prioritise these news values?
Frequency - Time Span of an event and the extent to which it fits the frequency of the newspaper's or news broadcast's schedule.
Threshold - How big is an event? Is it big enough to make it into the news?
Unambiguity - How clear is the meaning of an event?
Meaningfulness - How meanigful will the event appear to the receivers of the news? Hartley stresses in this conetext what he refers to as "cultural proximity". Events happening in cultures very different from our will not be seen as being inherently meanigful to audiences here.
Consonance - Does the event match the audience's expectations? Journalists have a pretty good idea of the angle from which they want to report an event, even before they get there.
Unexpectedness - "Man bites dog" is news. If an event is highly unpredictable, then it is likely to make it in the news.
Continuity - Once an even has been covered, it is convenient to continue to cover it - the running stroy.
Composition - This is a matter of balance of the news. It is a matter of the editors judgement, more than anything else. A different news broadcast will have a different agenda in terms of "hard" and "soft" news for example, usually dependent on the prerceived target audience.
Reference to elite nations - This relates to cultural proximity.
Reference to elite persons - The media pay attention to important people. Anyone the media pay attention to must be important.
Personalisation - This connects with unambiguity and meaningfulness. Events are seen as the actions of individuals.
Negativity - Bad news is good news in ters of what is reported.
Threshold:
Wenger accuses official of lyingArsène Wenger is furious with the FA after a linesman's report claimed that Emmanuel Adebayor punched Frank Lampard in the Carling Cup final.
Unexpectedness:
How to have meat with your veg? What do you do if you're a meat-eater living with a vegetarian? Chef and committed carnivore Tom Norrington-Davies knows - he has been in a relationship with one for almost 10 years. Here he offers some tips on keeping things cooking.
Negativity:
Virgin baits 'Sky Snooze'Virgin Media has rubbed salt into Sky's wounds with spoof names for the disappeared services on its electronic TV guide. By Chris Tryhorn.
What is gatekeeping?
Gatekeeping are the editors who are responsible for selecting and orderting the news broadcasts or selecting and ordering the news broadcasts or selectng and planning the newspaper layout.
The gatekeeper will only allow selected items inthe news and will be based on news values, audience expectations and institutional requirements. There are other more complex models to represent the gatekeeping process but this is a good basic illustation.
What do we mean by bias?
Primary forms of bias are:
bias through selection and omission
bias through placement
bias by photos, captions and camera angles
bias through use of names and titles
bias through statistics anc crowd counts
bias by source control
word choice and tone
Wikipedia defintion:
A bias is a prejudice in a general or specific sense, usually in the sense for having a preference to one particular point of view or ideological perspective. However, one is generally only said to be biased if one's powers of judgment are influenced by the biases one holds, to the extent that one's views could not be taken as being neutral or objective, but instead as subjective. A bias could, for example, lead one to accept or deny the truth of a claim, not on the basis of the strength of the arguments in support of the claim themselves, but because of the extent of the claim's correspondence with one's own preconceived ideas.
How would you prioritise these news values?
Frequency - Time Span of an event and the extent to which it fits the frequency of the newspaper's or news broadcast's schedule.
Threshold - How big is an event? Is it big enough to make it into the news?
Unambiguity - How clear is the meaning of an event?
Meaningfulness - How meanigful will the event appear to the receivers of the news? Hartley stresses in this conetext what he refers to as "cultural proximity". Events happening in cultures very different from our will not be seen as being inherently meanigful to audiences here.
Consonance - Does the event match the audience's expectations? Journalists have a pretty good idea of the angle from which they want to report an event, even before they get there.
Unexpectedness - "Man bites dog" is news. If an event is highly unpredictable, then it is likely to make it in the news.
Continuity - Once an even has been covered, it is convenient to continue to cover it - the running stroy.
Composition - This is a matter of balance of the news. It is a matter of the editors judgement, more than anything else. A different news broadcast will have a different agenda in terms of "hard" and "soft" news for example, usually dependent on the prerceived target audience.
Reference to elite nations - This relates to cultural proximity.
Reference to elite persons - The media pay attention to important people. Anyone the media pay attention to must be important.
Personalisation - This connects with unambiguity and meaningfulness. Events are seen as the actions of individuals.
Negativity - Bad news is good news in ters of what is reported.
Threshold:
Wenger accuses official of lyingArsène Wenger is furious with the FA after a linesman's report claimed that Emmanuel Adebayor punched Frank Lampard in the Carling Cup final.
Unexpectedness:
How to have meat with your veg? What do you do if you're a meat-eater living with a vegetarian? Chef and committed carnivore Tom Norrington-Davies knows - he has been in a relationship with one for almost 10 years. Here he offers some tips on keeping things cooking.
Negativity:
Virgin baits 'Sky Snooze'Virgin Media has rubbed salt into Sky's wounds with spoof names for the disappeared services on its electronic TV guide. By Chris Tryhorn.
What is gatekeeping?
Gatekeeping are the editors who are responsible for selecting and orderting the news broadcasts or selecting and ordering the news broadcasts or selectng and planning the newspaper layout.
The gatekeeper will only allow selected items inthe news and will be based on news values, audience expectations and institutional requirements. There are other more complex models to represent the gatekeeping process but this is a good basic illustation.
What do we mean by bias?
Primary forms of bias are:
bias through selection and omission
bias through placement
bias by photos, captions and camera angles
bias through use of names and titles
bias through statistics anc crowd counts
bias by source control
word choice and tone
Wikipedia defintion:
A bias is a prejudice in a general or specific sense, usually in the sense for having a preference to one particular point of view or ideological perspective. However, one is generally only said to be biased if one's powers of judgment are influenced by the biases one holds, to the extent that one's views could not be taken as being neutral or objective, but instead as subjective. A bias could, for example, lead one to accept or deny the truth of a claim, not on the basis of the strength of the arguments in support of the claim themselves, but because of the extent of the claim's correspondence with one's own preconceived ideas.
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