The Media Flashcards
News Value: Frequency
Short term news stories (e.g a murder) are preferred to long term trends (e.g poverty)
News Value: Threshold
The size of an event dictates its importance: the bigger the event (e.g more victims), the more likely it is to make the news
News Value: unambiguity
The more clearly an issue or story can be understood, the more likely it is to make the news
News Value: meaningfulness
Issues of events that speak to our culture/identity, hold more meaning to us
News Value: correspondence
The unfolding of an issue or story corresponds to the publics prediction of what is expected to happen
News Value: unexpectedness
Bizarre or interesting headlines get audiences attention
News Value: continuity
Events that will live beyond a day or a week (e.g war) are deemed newsworthy
News Value: composition
Stories that aren’t newsworthy are selected for balance
News Value: elite nations
Stories from powerful nations are often covered by media across the world e.g US Presidential Race
News Value: elite people
The actions of elite people are deemed more newsworthy than ordinary people
News Value: reference to individuals
Stories that personify issues by parenting them as human action are deemed newsworthy
News Value: negativity
Bad news (e.g death, political/ economic crisis) is valued more than good news
Who created the 12 ‘news values’ that deem stories ‘newsworthy’
Galtung and Ruge
What are the types of media?
Print, broadcast, digital
What role does the media have in society?
- Provides news
- Acts as watchdog
- Provides entertainment
- Promotes social and political change
- Entertains people
- Connects people locally, nationally, globally
