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Selection and presentation LT5* Flashcards

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Structural factors influencing selection and presentation of news

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costs
competion
profit
time and space

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Costs

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News gathering is an expensive business and booking satellites connections are expensive
News is filled with overseas events companies such as BBC

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citizen journalism (costs)

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suits mainstream media companies as little cost to them compared to sending reporters

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What has globalisation lead to in the media?

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there are mass of news providers from across the globe to choose from.

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What do media companies have to do?

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Compete In order to survie

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How does news compete with competition?

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Up to date, tailor their media offering and ways of presenting
e.g. short, snappy, simple, using gadgets for youthful audience and celeb gossip for mass consumption

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how has new technology helped the media?

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news is instantly available from almost anywhere in the world 24 hour a day due to technology

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Profit

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media’s profit is advertisement
so avoid offending audience, reducing popularity thus reducing advertisement and reducing profit

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What attracts audiences?

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dumbing down of news content of politics replacing it with celebrity stories and gossip

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Bagdikian (2004)

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Time

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Television news, especially 24 hour based news has an advantage of newspaper here as it can report as it happens

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space

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how people are encouraged to view stories e.g. physical position of news story’s on websites, order given in and choice of headlines

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ideological factors influencing selection and presentation of the news

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influence of the owner
Agenda setting
Gate keeping
Norm setting
News values

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The influence of the owners

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owners via the editors, influence the resources made available to cover news stories

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how do editors effect news?

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Editors career depends on not upsetting owners so they self censor avoiding reporting events that might offence owners

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What are concerned with?

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Making profits and the search for profit however develops unethical journalism.

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Example of unethical journalism

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The leveson enquiry followed claims of illegal phone hacking at the news of the world.

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Agenda setting

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people can only discuss and form opinions on things that they know about and media provides information

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Philo (2012)

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The media were effective in channeling public anger (of the 2008 bank crisis) towards ‘scumbag millionaire’ and considering solutions within the existing system. therefore stopped people discussing solutions.

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Gate keeper

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The media power to refuse to cover some issues and to let others through is called ‘gatekeeping’

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Gatekeeping (GMG)

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owners, editors and journalists construct the news by acting as gatekeepers, influencing what knowledge the public gains

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Example of Gate keeping

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Welfare benefit fraud by the poor is widely reported, but tax evasion of the rich

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Norm setting

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Describes the way the media emphasises and reinforces conformity to social norms and seeks to isolate non conformists

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What are the two ways norm setting is achieved?

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Encouraging conformist behaviour
Discouraging non-conformist behaviour

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Encouraging conformist behaviour

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e.g. not going on strike, obeying the law etc

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Discouraging non-conformist behaviour

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e.g. treatment of murder. emphasis consequences

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News Values

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journalist operate with certain value and assumptions which guide them in deciding what is newsworthy

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Example of news values

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Frequency
Narrative
Negativity

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Frequency

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news event that occur over a short period of time fit in with news schedules

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Narrative

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prefer to present news in forms of a story with hero’s and villains

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Negativity

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bad news is regarded as more exciting and dramatic than good news

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Criticism of presentation of the news

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Journalism is undergoing change and traditional values may no longer be relevant in age of spin doctors, churnalism and citizen journalism

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