(Greer, 2009) In Chibnall’s 1977 study, he found that there are eight possible news values that are used when determining which stories to cover. Chibnall’s values included: personalisation, the idea that a story becomes more newsworthy when a person of higher standing is named or mentioned; alongside dramatisation where the story is filled with spectacle that helps to attract an audiences’ attention. (Chibnall, 1977 cited in Newburn, 2007) These values are integral to journalists as they are the ones that are left with the task of presenting the facts of a crime story to its audience, it is seen as their responsibility to reflect the true situation through the media without this audiences will have a skewed perception of the criminal justice system and crime. (Bates,
(Greer, 2009) In Chibnall’s 1977 study, he found that there are eight possible news values that are used when determining which stories to cover. Chibnall’s values included: personalisation, the idea that a story becomes more newsworthy when a person of higher standing is named or mentioned; alongside dramatisation where the story is filled with spectacle that helps to attract an audiences’ attention. (Chibnall, 1977 cited in Newburn, 2007) These values are integral to journalists as they are the ones that are left with the task of presenting the facts of a crime story to its audience, it is seen as their responsibility to reflect the true situation through the media without this audiences will have a skewed perception of the criminal justice system and crime. (Bates,