MMC-2000 Lecture 6: Constructing the news
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1920"s, journalism trying to make a professional movement. Rising belief that news and media should be objective. News = what is deemed to be noteworthy. News itself isn"t a mirror of the world, people are deciding what to publish, what to not publish. News values qualities that an event may or may not have to determine newsworthiness. Editorial is opinionated, news is (supposedly) objective and factual. But this means that someone is deciding what is and isn"t news: gatekeepers. Ownership of the newspaper (maybe not on daily basis, but cultural) Political leaders and influential people (press conferences set what the story is going to be) Newspapers may become gatekeepers to one another, influence process (they"re covering it, so should we) Two competing interests: news and serving public and being a business. Journalists often avoid stories to not piss off big advertising businesses. Story formula inverted pyramid, most important info up front, slowly get less and less important info through story,
