News values

Question 1

What is news the outcome of?

Answer 1

A social process in which some stories are selected whilst others are rejected

Question 2

Who argues that news is not discovered but manufactured?

Answer 2

Cohen and Young

Question 3

News values

Answer 3

A criteria by which journalists and editors decide whether a story is newsworthy enough to make it onto the newspaper or news bulletin

Question 4

Examples of news values

Answer 4

Immediacy
Dramatisation
Personalisation
Higher status
Novelty
Simplification
Risk
Violence

Question 5

Who identifies the ‘laws of opposites’ to offical statistics in fictional crime?

Answer 5

Surrete

Question 6

Examples of laws of opposites

Answer 6

Property crime is under-represented while violence, drugs and sex crimes are over-represented
While real homicides mainly result from disputes, fictional ones are the product of greed and calculation

Question 7

Evaluation of ‘laws of opposites’ in fictional media

Answer 7

Can show police as corrupt, brutal and features young, non white underclass offenders