NEWS VALUES
News values News today is converged and dispersed across a range of platforms with a huge range of sources/ producers including audiences who share the news and alter its meaning by adding their own hyperlinks and comments. News values systematically construct rather than simply accompany the gathering of news. These are not values consciously held by journalists. Most maintain the ideal of achieving objectivity or truth. Galtung and Ruge (1981) These theorists argued that news is structured according to unspoken values, rather than discovered. 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 flavoured. Now with a much faster news agenda, 24 rolling news channels, online and social, events need to be much more frequent to be favoured in new coverage. Threshold This is the size of the event that's needed for it to be considered newsworthy. Commonly occurring events happening t...
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