This weeks topic surrounded the concept of News Values. News values being, to steal a quote from the slides, "The degree of prominence
a media outlet gives to a
story, and the attention that
is paid by an audience."
To elaborate upon this quote, I'll add another by Kurt Loder, also from the slides:
‘news is anything that's interesting, that relates
to what's happening in the world, what's
happening in areas of the culture that would be
of interest to your audience.’
As I've probably said in previous entries, I believe News Values are becoming quite inverse. By that I mean superfluous tabloid type information is becoming the most read information. This is linked to Loder's quote as it inexplicitly says that we as a culture are becoming increasingly self centred and superficial and thus so is our news. This of course isn't entirely true as there are still very much watched stations such as ABC News and SBS World News, though I do think it is true enough to be worth thinking about and how we can reverse this.
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