Section and Presentation of the News

Question 1

OFCOM - stats of news

Answer 1

75% if people use TV for news
40% newspapers
36% radios
despite all the choices people still use the main sources.

Question 2

Freeman - stats on decline of newspapers

Answer 2

Between 1994 and 2004 - drop by 29%, from 13.2 million to 9.5 million.

Question 3

McQuail

Answer 3

News is socially constructed: selective process from the gatekeepers (journalists, editors).

Question 4

Spencer-Thomas

Answer 4

News values have general guidelines/criteria’s that determines whether a story is newsworthy.

Question 5

Lobby Journalists/Press officer

criticism for news values

Answer 5

Journalists that wait in a lobby for MP’s to come out and get info from them.

Question 6

Spin doctors

Answer 6

Meet journalists to ‘manage’ stories that our favourable for the gov:

• Help favour a certain political view.
• ‘Spin’ info to look good/bad.

Question 7

Churnalism

Answer 7

DAVIES - Journalists no longer undertake investigative, active news, rather they ‘churn out’ stories from spin doctors -

Question 8

Bureaucratic routines

Answer 8

How organisation gather info/news

1. cost - cheaper to looking into infotainment
2. time and space
3. the audience demand - getting a reaction
4. Journalist ethics - can’t make misleading info, OFCOM monitors this.

Question 9

OWNERSHIP, IDEOLOGY & BIAS - TOPIC 4 PAGE 2.

Answer 9

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Question 10

Moral panic

Answer 10

Social concern over a certain issue - usually created by moral entrepreneurs
(folk devils involved)

Question 11

Folk devil

Answer 11

A group of people that get demonised by moral entrepreneur e.g hoodie, lone-parent fam.

Question 12

Moral entrepreneurs

Answer 12

Person/group with the power to enforce roles - teachers, politicians, religious leaders.
e.g brexit, black muggers, robbery’s on mo-peds.