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News sources couldry et al 2006

Found 85% of people regularly watched tv news in comparison to 23% who use the Internet

Mquail 1992

Suggests because events happen it doesn’t make it news pointing out news selection news values held by organisers and organisational constraints celebrities with big followings rare occasions and world problems

Hegemonic Marxists

The Gumg have shown that selection and presentation is not a neutral process

Ofcom 2005 survey

Found 94% of the uk population believe it is important for tv news to be impartial

News values

Spencer Thomas 2008 suggest that news values help to define what journalists see as news worthy

News values

Extraordinariness Threshold. In ambiguity. Reference to elite. Reference to elite nations. Personalisation. Frequency. Continuity Negativity

Criticisms

Brighton and foy criticise this list because their compilers assume that there is an consensus to what is newsworthy

Churnalism news companies

Making thousand of redundancies most stories are now gathered by press association


Davies 2007 argues that journalists should now be called churnalists because they do not do it properly anymore it’s all copied from somewhere else

Citizen journalism

Most live footage of disasters is captured by citizens on mobile phones drudge report for example is more so a blog

Criticisms of citizen journalism

Keen 2008 dismisses citizen journalism as offering opinion as fact


Couldry 2010 empirically investigated the impact of cj in the USA and found it had minimal effect


Gilmore 2006 points out that cj is the product of a narrow and privledges part of society

Spin doctors

People that alter stories to make them look better or others look worse in some way - politicians

Organisation and bureaucratic routines

Factors that influence or limit news