Selecting and Presenting the News (AQA A-Level Sociology): Flashcards

Constructed by journalists through selection/presentation, not objective record

Favors accessible sources & predictable events

Easier locations become top stories more often

Stories from existing contacts cheaper to produce

Principles guiding what journalists consider newsworthy

Current, simple, brief, big news over small

Unexpected, important people, relevant, bad news preferred

Journalists/editors control what becomes news

Editors decide which stories get coverage & space

TV news coverage of workplace strikes

Coverage favored dominant class values over working-class perspectives

Public participation in news via smartphones/social media

May present rumors as fact or misinterpret events

Advertisers avoided war coverage, led to suppression of controversial images

News of the World phone hacking scandal