ATS2469 Chapter Notes -Victimology, Victimisation, Innocent Victims
11 Sep 2013
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Demand for news: the role of the public. The media & social discourse of the victim". News and victimisation as a commodity i. e. we consume news. Presentation fulfils demand/insatiable appetite for particular types" of stories. Tv ratings, newspaper sales, website hits increase for sensational stories of crime and for those who get the exclusive". E. g. child murder victims: how victims use and are used for agendas. Popular imagination: news as a genre of truth" telling, news as an objective" and neutral" reporting of facts", news as a commodity. Informing the audience is not the only goal. Hierarchy of the ideal" to non-ideal" victim: attention, generate change, public sympathy, no attention, absent, unnoticed and no change. Priorities are judged according to newsworthiness: determining what, how and when to report is informed by the why i. e. newsworthy" is informed by news values, impact sustains, reinforces, produces images of real" victims.
