COMM ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Chequebook Journalism, Payola

• School: UCLA
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM ST 10
• Professor: Professor Suman

Document Summary

Day 17: selection process & ethical issues in media. 2: people to those areas where they think they are going to get these stories. Beat system - need to predict when stories are going to happen, so they assign. Pack journalism - by certain elements, certain elite journalists define what is a story. Regularized phenomena - newspapers come out every day, regardless of what is. Deadlines - stories have to be submitted on time. Events - concepts and ideas that are difficult and complex. Drama - tells a good story with a beginning, middle, end. Conflict - makes drama more compelling (reason why scandals are covered) Unpredictable / unusual - draws readers in (ex. man bites dog) Proximity - we tend to pay more attention to what is happening close to home (the. Good film closer something is, the easier it is to cover)