booklet 4 Flashcards
What organisation says that 75% of people indicated that TV News was their most used platform ?
Ofcom 2014
What report found that 94% of uk population thought it was important the news was impartial ?
Ofcom 2005
Who argues that not all events can become news as there are simply too many of them – what becomes ‘news’ is a result of social processes of ‘gatekeepers’ such as owners, editors and journalists who make judgments about what is important enough to report?
McQuail
Who defines news values are general guidelines or criteria that determine the worth of a news story and how much prominence it is given by newspapers or broadcast ?
Spencer Thomas
Who supplied one of the best-known lists of news values, based on their analysis of Norwegian news coverage?
Galtung and Ruge
What is the journalistic idea that events have less news value, the further away they are from the place where they are being reported. For example, the theory suggests that a single casualty in one’s home country is as newsworthy as 1,000 casualties on the other side of the world?
MClurg law
Who criticises lists of news values because they assume a consensus exists among audience and journalists about what is newsworthy?
Brighton and Foy
Who updated the list of news values by their studies of the British newspapers and showed news values are still relevant ?
Harcup and Oneill
Who says that a basic function of journalism is to check facts but modern journalism has been corrupted by a failure to fact check. This leads to ‘Flat-earth’ news stories – stories widely accepted as true, without proper evidence?
Davis
Who says newspaper journalists in the last 10 yrs have been reporting unveiling matters that are concealed by people in power and digging up dirt of private lives of celebs because news owners have cut costs ?
Williams
Who says that entertainment has now superseded provision of information in construction of news , both in newspapers and on TV entertainment ?
Franklin
What organisation was replaced because it was criticised for being ineffective in holding the press accountable and failing to properly address issues like phone hacking and breaches of privacy as many of its members were former journalists or media executives, and the organisation was funded by the newspapers themselves?
PCC
What investigation launched in 2011 following the phone-hacking scandal involving journalists at the News of the World newspaper, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp?
Leveson Inquiry
What organisation was established in 2014 and aimed to be a more tough and transparent regulator for the press.
It was able to fine up to £1million for companies who breached the code of conduct (though rarely used)?
IPSO
Who sees the IPSO as an ‘ideological myth’ invented by media owners in order to make the media seem unbiased. In reality, he argues extremely powerful media owners can intervene in the selection of the news?
McChesney
What owner of Fox News and The Sun, were strong supporters of the 2003 Iraq War and promoted the narrative that Iraq had WMDs and was a threat to national security which presented a pro-war, one-sided view?
Rupert Murdoch
Who argues the propaganda model of media is where capitalist forces shape media output as
media businesses are profit-driven and rely on advertising. Advertising companies are also motivated by profit and so are unlikely to criticise capitalism ?
Herman and Chompsky
Who argue that sensitive topics, like the role of the US/UK governments in harmful actions (such as genocide or crimes), are often downplayed or not discussed.
At the same time, the media tends to demonise the politics of developing countries, while portraying the US as a defender of democracy?
Edwards and Cromwell
Who suggests that groups whose views journalists rank as most credible are most likely to be printed (‘primary definers’)?
Stuart Hall
Who argues the way in which news is gathered and presented is the product of the middle-class journalists and editors who shape it. Because of their backgrounds, such middle-class professionals unconsciously side with the rich and powerful and fear radical change proposed by powerless groups?
GUMG
Who found that language and images in broadcasts were more sympathetic to the interests of the powerful and devalue the points of less powerful groups e.g. trade unions are ‘demanding’, suggesting greed, whilst managers make ‘offers’, suggesting generosity?
Fiske
Who studied Mods v Rockers moral panics ?
Stanley Cohen
Who studied the Black mugging moral panic ?
Hall Et Al
Who suggests moral panics arise when society fails to adapt to social change and feels there is a loss of control, especially over the young?
Furedi
