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    ‘News’ is media coverage of an event that occurs somewhere in the world and Communication experts have studied the criteria they believe to affect the integration of internal national events into local news. There is constantly something happening to someone in the world at any given second, so what criteria qualify an event as news (Galtung and Ruge 65, 2009)? Johan Galtung and Mari Holmboe Ruge claim that events are understood culturally and by what will grasp the audience’s attention. They theorize

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    The written task is based on Pygmalion written by George Bernard Shaw. The aim of this task was to introduce their changes in life which is based on two appealing characters: Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. The reason of I chose new article was because it was a common and formal type of media which describes a phenomenon or an occasion that is appropriate to describe the changes around these two characters. Eliza Doolittle came across as being much more instrumental than fundamental, Her change

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    The news media’s role in today’s society is interlocked and essential to the conveying of information. The news media has access to television broadcasting and has people to go find stories to broadcast. However, as time has progressed, the news media has become more and more opinionated. Consequently, the bias of the news media in their reporting’s has tainted the opinions of the American people. By creating a strict set of laws pertaining to the reporting of news, bias within reports will have

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    Bias In The Media Bias

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    different news channels in which they all tend to lean more on one side, there is not a single news channel that is on the same side as another. There are many current events that have multiple contentious between other news channels. The viewers

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    The Philip Defanco Show

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    The Rachel Maddow Show and The Philip DeFranco Show. I had chosen to compare the two because they are both personality driven news shows, with the similar format of one presenter and a skew towards a liberal political stance. These similarities will allow me to more clearly see a difference in how I consume the content. The format of the show hosted by Maddow, a cable news show on MSNBC, has remained for the most part, static, it could have been produced 30 years ago to the same effect through television

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    “News reporting in the UK can best be understood through the theory of news values” News values are a set of theories that look to explain the reasons for stories appearing in the media. News values are ‘general guidelines or criteria used by media outlets to determine how much prominence to give to a story ’ (Spencer-Thomas, 2013). The new values theories aim to explain why decisions are made to prioritise certain stories. ‘A hard news story carries information in order of news value ’ (Keeble

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    JOURNALISTIC AND COMMERCIAL NEWS VALUES Journalistic and Commercial News Values News Organizations as Patrons of an Institution and Market Actors SIGURD ALLERN Why do some events fill the columns and air time of news media, while others are ignored? Why do some stories make banner headlines whereas others merit no more than a few lines? What factors decide what news professionals consider newsworthy? Such questions are often answered – by journalists and media researchers alike – with references

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    The news media is an important aspect of a democratic nation, as one of their roles is to be a voice of the public — to mediate between the public and the government. Anderson (2007) asserts that the normative roles of the news media in a democratic society are to undertake the role of the fourth estate, act as a watchdog, and when necessary, as a counterbalance to those in society who abuse their power. In other words, the media’s function in society is critical to ensuring a balanced governance

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    children and how they portrayed them in general. In local papers there are usually articles of local news from around the area, items for sale and advertisements. Local papers highlight local stories and issues. Local papers usually have the scores or information about local teams in the sport section. The local papers are distributed to a specific area and usually contain news about

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    sell the video to highest bidder and that it would be a top story on the news. Lou was intrigued and asked if Joe had a job, which he did not, and when Lou saw the work on the news he was convinced this was his new career. Lou steals a high-end bike and trades up at a pawn shop for a video camera and a police scanner. His first story is a carjacking story where he was able to get up close footage. Nina, the director of news, was very interested in his footage for the pure graphic nature of it and

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