NEWS IS CREATED!!!!!
News is a process of selection and construction. News papers and News broadcasts are constructed and meaning is constructed into them.
News Gathering
News is not waiting to be collected. Reporters collect news by going to regular sources such as press officers, Press conferences, Junkets etc... A lot of material comes through news agencies such as Associated Press and Reuters
The material collected through these agencies is paid for; the television news operations across Europe have a link up every morning to buy and sell news items.
BBC NewsWatch
News Agenda
News items are selected in or our. The news organisations set up an agenda of topics that form the news. It is the editors (of all news mediums) that chose the news and by doing so they are also choosing an agenda. This agenda is set to determine our views of what is important.
Gate Keepers
Gate keepers are those responsible for what stories go into the newspaper or programme. They have the control to edit out certain parts of stories or cut entire stories. Gate keepers are mainly the Editors of the publication/programme, although often the owner of the organisation acts as a gate keeper, with the most famous being Rupert Murdoch, owner of The Sun and News of the World.
Bias and Impartiality.
Broadcast news does not take sides and does not not show favour to one particular political party over another, this however cannot be said of news papers. Newspapers often tend to lean towards a certain political party, many include editorials which show bias towards certain events and provide a particular interpretation of the events. This expression of opinions shows an area of bias.
Media Knowall
Electronic News Gathering
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