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Which news values apply in the story? Give rang of examples and make specific reference to theory including Galtung and Ruge and narrative. Consider the role of ideology. News values are non-written rules but implement ideology for journalists as to what they should and should not write about. Galtung and Ruge are theorist that argue that news is structured according to unspoken values, rather than discovered. Some of the news values include: Frequency, this value is to do with the time scale of events perceived to be newsworthy. In pre- web 2.0 days, stories which unfolded daily were flavored. Now with a much faster news agenda, 24 rolling news channels, online and social, events need to be much more frequent to be favored in new coverage. Threshold, this value is to do with the time scale of events perceived to be newsworthy. In pre- web 2.0 days, stories which unfolded daily were flavored. Now with a much faster news agenda, 24 rolling news channels, online a...

The only people I know who buy newspapers on a regular are my Grandparents on my dad's side as they buy newspapers every week. Personally, depending on what I'm finding out, the news site doesn't really matter to me as either way the same story, even if written from different news companies, should still have the similar overview of the situation at hand making the news. I'm not sure about non-news sites as although they are not a main site for consumption they are still a form of news site and I'm unaware if anyone I know in particular uses them on a daily basis. These kind of non-news sites would most likely be used by teenagers in my generation. I consume news from everywhere, if it be my fellow peers, online via social media, televised news or the rare reading of a newspaper. Everyday we all consume news even if it is unintentional and just like media we can more or less not escape it. Objectivity matters to me as you should tell the news on the truth, the whol...

In the first article, stating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the Daily Telegraph presents the breaking news as the worst event of the year. By bringing forth the facts that it has brought a lot of publicity abroad, the family have raised the awareness that their missing child could cause the reward of over a few million pounds. Compared to the Shannon Matthews case, this story was spread not only nationwide but other parts of the world to becoming more and more known. The Shannon Matthews case only presents the idea that it was only known in the United Kingdom and not anywhere else worldwide. The fact that Madeleine McCann's case is much more popular could be due to the idea of social class and their reputation. If we look at the comparison between the two children's parents, we can see that Madeleine's family is much more wealthy and belong to the middle, upper class and Shannon's family belonging to the working class of society. The idea that the higher ranked...