AJ 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: News Values

• School: Pasadena City College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: AJ 010
• Professor: gallon

Document Summary

The media tend to report crimes that: are geographically closer to the audience (e. g. crimes in your local community or. Stories that contain two or more parties in conflict are deemed more newsworthy: e. g. stories of environmentalist vs developers; feuding neighbours or businesses. The greater the level of conflict, the more newsworthy the story. The media tend to report stories that fit with (or can give the appearance of fitting with) current events or similar stories. In doing so, the media tends to link events which may have a common theme, but which otherwise are unrelated, again creating a sense that there is more problem leading to more crime. Rather than rely on statistical data or academic research for information about crime, they may link unrelated events and give impression they are related. Media report on stories that show positive aspect of human behaviour. Haman interest stories may not contain any of the previously highlighted news values.