CMNS 326 Chapter Notes -Free Newspaper, Peter Oborne, Magical Creatures In Harry Potter
26 Oct 2013
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The online version of this article can be found at: http://bjr. sagepub. com/content/23/2/60. citation. The media"s flawed self-reporting of phone hacking indicates the need for a publicly-available audit of news, suggest two academics. According to political commentator peter oborne, phone hacking has almost everything royalty, police corruption, downing street complicity, celebrities by the cartload, fleet street at its most evil and disgusting . [it] should have been one of the great stories of all time, he claimed. The national newspapers" selective approach when reporting the phone- hacking scandal demonstrates that news organisations remain powerful gatekeepers of newsworthiness and the contours of the news agenda. Ideally, journalists make news selections in the public interest, identifying relevant stories and important trends from the mass of information available. The lack of coverage given to phone hacking before 2011, however, exemplified how a definition of newsworthiness in the public interest can be subordinate to a tangled web of competing personal, professional, political and commercial interests.
