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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
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
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