NEWSPAPERS AND REPRESENTATION

Question 1

How is news gathered?

Answer 1

• Teams of reporters gather news locally or through press agencies.

Question 2

What are press agencies?

Answer 2

• Organations that operate globally and identify key facts when major events happen and sell info to different news outlets (that quickly reshape the story to reflect their values).

DMG Media + News UK= share holders in PA so they access info for free/reduced cost.

Question 3

What is the process of gatekeeping?

Answer 3

• Refers to the proces of selecting, filtering and shaping news before it reaches audiences. The theory highlights the factors behind this selection process (bias, audience interest, ownership)

Question 4

Gatekeepers (editors) can practice protective coverage. What is protective coverage?

Answer 4

• Withholding news or not reporting on a story that would harm powerful people or the public or impeded on an ongoing legal investigation.

Question 5

How has citizen journalism disruptd the news agenda?

Answer 5

• Ordinary people can report on news in real-time (bypassing traditional gatekeeprs).

Question 6

Define free press?

Answer 6

• A news industry that is not censored or restricted by the goverment in their beliefs, or values.

Question 7

Fourth estate meaning?

Answer 7

• Idea that suggests the news MUST operate in a way that safeguards the public and the democratic process.

Example – role of UK newspapers was instrumental to highlighting the MP expense scandal in 2009.

Question 8

What is political bias in the news industry?

Answer 8

• The way in which the political ideologies of the newspaper affect their representation of events people or issues.

Example – The Sun’s famous headline in 1992 ‘It was the Sun Wot Won it’ referring to conservative victory in which the paper endorsed the party.

Question 9

More than half of the UK’s national daily newspapers support rightwing values- Why is this problematic?

Answer 9

• Results in a homogenous view of the news.

Question 10

DMG (DM) + NEWS UK (THE SUN) control over…

Answer 10

• …over 60% of the news circulation in the UK

yet both newspapers are right wing, endorse the conservative party, owned by wealthy white male barons/proprietors who control global media outlets.