News Value (Notes)

-
NEWSPAPER & ONLINE

News Values - They decide on what makes it into the news, they're not consciously held by journalists. Determines what is news worthy and what is not

Vast majority of newspapers in the UK are right winged, so they all have some sort of a political agenda.

Three main news organisations in this country. Ownership.

Galtung and Ruge (1981)
These theorists argued that news is structured according to unspoken values, rather than discovered.
Here are some of their key terms:

FREQUENCY:
 Comes from frequent, to do with time scale of the event, news want to cover events that occur quickly. We're all looking for the latest things, hear stories as they develop. 

THRESHOLD:
 Size of the event that's needed to be considered newsworthy, commonly occurring events may not count unless they involve a celebrity.

PROXIMITY:
Close to home, e.g. terror attacks 2017 and the london bridge attacks, in the same year there were similar terror attacks in Somalia (300 people killed) but we wouldn't have known. UK News. Stories of the west, we heard about the New Zealand Terror attacks and not the Somalia ones, prejudice/racism/'otherness'.

Gilroy looks at race and social class in particular, Hall argues that BAME people are known in the media only for their ''otherness''

 Otherness- there's us and then there are the 'others'. blaming others a bad influence. Based on representations of BAMEs in the media they are usually portrayed in how they differ from white people. This frames them as the 'other' and white people as the norm. 

NOTES ON ARTICLES: 
  • Survey piece of research on where terror attacks are taking place
  • News value of Proximity
  • The article on the reporting of terror attacks (August 2017, Aljazeera)
  • News suggest that we are very much in danger of terror attacks in the UK, the reality is that very few of such attacks occur in the UK and in Europe. 
NEGATIVITY: 
If it's news. it's bad news, bad news are almost every time covered over positive stories. 

PREDICTABILITY:
Often stories are presented to us as being surprised, it's often predictable. E.G. if the news knows there's gonna be an extinction rebellion protest occurring, the news can plan around them. 
Predictable news could be political votes. 

CONTINUITY AND NARRATIVE:
Galtung and Ruge suggest that news is just like fiction, story-telling in news is quite good in simplifying context. Brexit is a good example of story, with great potential for narrative story-telling and continuity. Protagonists, antagonists and binary oppositions.

COMPOSITIONS:
News papers needs to be balanced out, so have a funny story along with a gloomy one. If you compose something you add different elements to it.  This can also be done in front covers.  

PERSONALISATION:
If you add a personality to the newspaper, then it can make it more interesting/human to a story. Similar to continuity characters can be created.





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Radio Writing Task Homework

-
How does the Radio One Breakfast Show  reach it's audience? The Radio One Breakfast Show is a radio show which airs from 6:30 AM to 10:00 AM during the week, not airing on the weekends. The show's target audience are 15-29-year-olds. But the show's presenter is actually 32. I feel as if the fact that the presenter is older than the target audience is only to prevent the show from doing immature things etc. By having an older host they'll know what to do and what not to do. Something that I realized is that the Radio One Breakfast show are aware that they do have an older audience listening so to keep the older audience they play older songs at times the younger audience might not be listening for example at 11:30 am they played songs like Genie in a Bottle and Block rockin' beats. The younger audience would not be listening at that time due to the fact that they have school, so no access to radio. But earlier in the show they played popular songs such as Breath
Read more

Analysis of Fairy Liquid Advert

-
Fairy Liquid Advert: The main aim of advertising is to establish a need. The Fairy Liquid advert is establishing the need of being clean. DENOTATIONS: Starts off with medium shot of father cleaning. Cuts to medium shot of child with Fairy liquid in the background. Emotional appeal; little kid who's doing cute things (e.g. wanting to make a rocket). Two shot of father and son, fairy liquid is still visible. Over the shoulder shot of boy counting down the days (a month has passed) The persuasive method of punishment is also used when the spokesperson refers to Fairy Liquid to be better and more lasting than the next best selling brand of washing up liquid The persuasive method of getting a reward is also used.  Diversity: there's a man doing the cleaning up. Sound: the chosen song is very friendly, giving off happy vibes. 360 pan of the fairy bottle (repetition) Evidence is used when the father swipes the plate with fairy and a scrub and all the dirt is gone
Read more

Task 3 Essay - Representations: gender and sexuality

-
Image
In this essay, I will be comparing how media language is used in the construction of gender in two print advertisements for fragrances. In the Aramis advert, we have an eye-level mid-shot of a well-groomed man standing with his hands against the window. The purpose of the eye-level mid shot is to target male customers; the model's gaze is quite taunting which also goes along with the text used ''All a Man is'' which is in quite an authoritative tone. Reinforcing the gender stereotype of men having to be this strong stereotypical sophisticated man. The background is blurred to keep the main focus on the perfume and the model. In the Juicy Couture advert, we see a mid-shot of the model the purpose of the mid-shot is to show off the whole model, this time the model is wearing more revealing clothes, h er dark attire and unkempt hair add to the rebel aspect part of the advert. To add to the mise en scene the model is crushing roses in her hand in a domineering
Read more