News Values
News Values Read Media Factsheet 76: News Values and complete the following questions/tasks. Our Media Factsheet archive is available here - you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. 1) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage? 'British servicewoman dies after Afghan bomb blast': geographical proximity-- Afghanistan is far away from the U.K. but when a young British soldier dies, the story gains cultural proximity as British audiences see the soldier as ‘one of their own’. intensity scale-- the first female officer to be killed is considered more newsworthy as it is unusual. there is also clarity of facts from an authoritative source, namely the Ministry of Defence. 2) What is gatekeeping? Gatekeeping is the process of selecting, and then filtering, items of media that can be consumed within the time or space that...