CRM 3317 Chapter The Construction of Crime News: September 19

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Crime news follows markedly different patterns to both the reality of crime and its representation in official statistics. Editors and journalists select, produce, and present news according to a range of professional criteria that are used as benchmarks to determine a story"s newsworthiness. If a story does not contain at least some of the characteristics deemed newsworthy, it will not appear on the news agenda. News values, are the value judgments that journalists and editors make about the public appeal of a story and also whether it is in the public interest. 12 news structures and news values that shape crime news: threshold. Events have to meet a certain level of perceived importance or drama in order to be considered newsworthy. Petty crimes (vandalism and street robberies) will likely feature in the local press, but it takes offences of a greater magnitude to meet the threshold of nation or international media.

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