Tag: news values
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Natural Disasters and News Values
Natural disasters hit several news values including negativity, threshold, picture values and unambiguity.
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Limited Media Reporting of the Labour Conference 2022 – Ideological Agenda setting or just ‘news values’…?
Examples of The Metro’s right wing ideological bias in Autumn 2022.
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The ‘murder’ of Policeman Andrew Harper: the perfect news story?
The recent death of Policeman Andrew Harper is possibly the perfect example of a story which ticks nearly every single news value imaginable. P.C. Andrew Harper was tragically killed when he was dragged along by a car while he was investigating a burglary. Negativity The unexpected early death of anyone in the prime of their…
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The Social Construction of News
The news is a socially manufactured product, rather than an objective ‘window on the world’. Many events happen in reality which do not get reported in the news and those which do appear in the news are placed in a particular order of priority and ‘framed’ by the questions which are asked and who is…
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Is alcohol really that bad for your health?
The new ‘safe’ level of alcohol consumption should be none, at least according to a recent study into the health risks of alcohol published by the The Lancet. This contradicts the current official government guidelines on the ‘safe’ level of drinking: currently around 14 units per week for women, and 21 for men. The findings…
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The social causes of the California wild fires
The California Wild Fires are typically reported as being caused by a ‘perfect storm’ of environmental factors. Mainstream news reports tend to focus on how a conflation of a lack of rain, humid conditions, and fierce winds results in these dramatic, and unpredictable fires. California wild fires certainly appear to be newsworthy, in that they…
