Media+crime

Question 1

News values

Immediacy

Answer 1

news values:criteria which journalists+editors use to decide if stories are worth publishing

details are readily available,therefore can be published as breaking news and can capture peoples attention

Question 2

News values

Dramatisation

Answer 2

exciting/dramatic details in an article which capture peoples attention

Question 3

News values

personalisation

Answer 3

audience develop sympathy with crime+interest in their experiences

Question 4

News values

high status

Answer 4

individuals such as politicians+celebrities will get more public interest

Question 5

Over representation of crime in media

Distortion of crime in the news

Answer 5

1) media exaggerates the wrong impression about the extent of violent+sexual crime which occurs
2) media creates the wrong impression about the characteristics of a typical victim.M/c+older victims getting more attention
3) media exaggerates successes of police
4) media exaggerates the risk of being a victim.Women, white people and wealthy people re high risk