Selection and presentation of the news Flashcards
1
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News values (Galtung and Ruge)
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How journalists decide what is newsworthy
2
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Criteria to decide what is newsworthy
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- frequency
- familiarity
- negativity
- unexpectedness
- unambiguity
- personalisation
- meaningfulness
- reference to elite nations
- reference to celebrities
- conflict
- continuity
3
Q
Constraints on news stories
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- tight deadlines
- limited budgets
- limited views of contracts
- limited time
- will not be shown without live footage
4
Q
Gatekeepers
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decide what media content is shown
5
Q
Agenda setters
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influences the types of stories shown and the way they cover them
6
Q
Norm setters
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how media emphasise and reinforce conformity to social norms, seeks to isolate those who do not conform by negative reporting
- Cohen, moral panics
7
Q
Citizen journalism
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ordinary citizens able to collect and report news of their own. Bivens argues this is a challenge to mainstream media
8
Q
Positives of citizen journalism
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- Drudge: improves democratic process
- Jon Snow: gold dust flying away
- improve knowledge of current issues (Palestine and Israel conflict)
- allows everyone to have a voice
- useful for monitoring those in power
9
Q
Negatives of citizen journalism
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- Keen: opinion as fact, rumour as reportage and innuendo as information
- Gilmor: CJ is often the product of a narrow and privileged part of society that requires high education, money and time
- Couldry: had minimal effect on news-gathering process and democratic process in the USA
10
Q
Criticisms of the moral panic theory
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- Jewkes: not all folk devils are vulnerable or unfairly maligned
- audience are not passive and will see through sensationalised news stories
- Postmodernists argue that with the increased amount of new media, audience will be able to find enough info to balance viewpoints
- PMs suggest new media has diluted moral panics
