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Example Slant/News Production Convention Identify Specific Criteria for This News Production Convention (p. 218, under the News Production Research heading) Examples of News Convention Criteria Provided Within the Example Associated Press via Yahoo News Three Swiss Guards Who Refused Vaccination Return to Switzerland Normalized -Usually in newspapers and broadcasts -“Little room in a given report for perspective and context” (Baran, 2022) There is no real perspective or context to be added to this article, the Guards who refused to be vaccinated left the job they were doing. No real need to interoperate anything here, probably was broadcasted in the country but may not have been mentioned anywhere else, it was a time where this was the new normal in some areas if people didn’t get the vaccination, they then lost their jobs. It was not something that needed to be broadcasted on the national news. Fox News Roadside Bomb Hits Taliban Car in Afghanistan Fragmented -Conventional type of news. -“News accounts and editorials are filled with politicians, think- tank experts, academics, and other authorities, those with the answers” (Baran, 2022) Was a live broadcast for only three minutes when it happening. The broadcaster was giving their own opinion on the results as they were happening, were probably backed up by facts of what the broadcaster was saying but they truly did not know who did it there was speculations due to history of incidents that had happened in the past. References: Baran, S. (2022). Introduction to Mass Communication (12th ed.). McGraw-Hill Higher Education (US). https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/books/9781265040994 Carter, R., & Dixson, B. (2021, October 3). Thousands of women march in Southern California as abortion- rights showdowns loom . Daily News. Retrieved February 2023, from https://www.dailynews.com/2021/10/02/women-to-gather-for-southern-california-marches-as-abortion- rights-showdowns-loom/