Week 5 Flashcards
What is multimedia
Newspaper
Magzine
Tv
Radio
Intrent
What are the different types of news
National and local press
Broadsheet and tabloid style
Womens and mens maganziens special intrest publications and professional journals
When was newspaper a first recognsible source
16 and 17th century
What was the more mental health coverage
Dangerounsens rare to find stories of accomplsiment or recovery
What is one of the main concers of negative coverage
The effect of those experiencing and living with mental health problems that contributes to social exclusion
What is coutning the cost
Press coverage is poorly balanced and reinforces stifmatising protrayls
Where has there been some change
Broadsheet newspapers and certain womens and mens magazines
What strongly influences the presentation of news
Owenership
What do journalist work within
Mainly a self-regulatory industry
What do guidlines adivse against
Discriminatory inaccurate and insensitive reporting
What did the Royal Commission on the press introduce
Voulntary self-regulation in the form of the press council in 1947 in response to public and parliamentary criticism
Unsuccessful
No formal code of practice
No legal powers of enforcement
What is the press complaints commission
Largely ineffective
Cannot be taken too seriouslay as regulatory body
What is clause 1
Accuracy
- The press must take not to publish inaccurate, misleading or disorted information including pictures
B- significant inaccuracy misleading statment or disortion once recognized must be connected, promptly with due prominensce and where appropriate an apology published
What is clause 12
What is the exception
Discrimination
the press must avoid prejudicial refrence to an individuals race, colour, relgion, sexual orientation phyiscla or mental illness or disaility must be avoided unless genuinely relevant to the story
What were the traditionally the mentally ill were regarded as
Group of individuals who did not have a collective voice or suffiviently strong adovcates who were willing to act on their behalf
What is NUJ code 3
A journalist shall strive to ensure that the information they disseminate is fair, accurate, avoid the expression of comment and conjecture as established fact and falsification by distortion selcetion or misrepresentation
What is Libel Law
Protects a persons right to repuation agianst defamtory allegations
What are liasion
Someone who works in between
How many aritcles analysed included the voice of current or fommer mental health service user
6.5
What are journalistic barriers and solutions
Not sure who to contact to didn’t include the service users perspective due to privacy conerns
Preparing news personnel to acess service-user ad prepartring service users for involvement
What is mental illness as a destructive force
Themselves
Others
Schadenfreude: Joy at the misfortune of others
Headlines and front page treatment
What is mental illness as a survivable condition
Positive alternative
More sensitive and realistic protrayls
Inspiration and heart warming stories
Usually are reflated to the back page
What gets covered is influenced by what
Deadlines space limitations and the publishers own news sense (poltical stance)
Whats the difference between broadsheet and tabloid newspapers
Broadsheet readers seek new ideas to make then sit up and think wherease popular paper readers want stories that fit their current conception of the world and not one that will disturb it
What is the semiotic approach
Aspects within a visual array have a particular meaning for the observer
What goes into selecting images
Intensity, Contrast, Change, Movement, novelty and incongruity
What is the mirror metaphor
News coverage reflects the social world and the amount to which disortions have been allowed to creep into the reporting process coupled with blind spots and redears take what they read for granted
What is advice for enganging with the news
Be critical selective cautious and offer feedback
