MC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The News Line, List Of University Presses, Johannes Gutenberg

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Mass Communication
• Course: MC 101
• Professor: Chris Roberts

Document Summary

Bigger the story, more people it is likely to affect. Things that are happening right now, recent events. Would probably not be published, if there was not a larger story that went on. Issues in the spotlight because of some other event. People who are famous are more likely to be in media. Things that are happening around us, in our communities, are more likely to be news stories than things happening far away that don"t affect us as much. How odd and out of culture something is. The more news values in a story, the more newsworthy. It is often difficult for a journalist to determine the truth of a story. News is the first rough draft of history. Story (offensive) published about the king of france, so the king of england had it shut down. Libel: true or not (at the time) Published something true that pissed off the kind. Only newspapers the british liked would be published.