JOUR 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fishmans, Whistle Rymes, News Values
23 Sep 2020
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Build the bureaucracy and the news will come . Do reporters represent organization (wo)men ? reporters cast in passive role little room for initative, creativity. Journalists make final decisions based on choices already made. Make choices predicted on the existence of a system of information. The force of bureaucratic routines coupled with reporters" interests in rare. So much for the idea of the enterprising, individual reporter, especially immortalized in hollywood movies! Not a random processs there"s logic, but it is rarely explicit. How to make sense and give order to disorganized occurrence of events. Planning news gathering selection of material production. What do we know will happen in advance. Different from spot news unplanned events such as natural disasters, accidents, fires. Different from running stories ongoing stories. Too many assumptions in elliott"s article about they are used. Not true they are used as starting point, least important, . How to present the news considering audience effects .
