News Values

1. How Would You Priortise these News Vaules

The Times- Saturday 10th February 2007

Frequency- 'a sculpted trapeze dress by designer Paul Costelloe, who opens the London Fashion Week tommorrow'

Threshold- 'A million motorists embarrass road price ministers'

Unambiguity- 'Return of the tycoon'

Meaningfulness- 'England's one-day wonders'

Reference to elite nations- 'British soldier'

Negativity- 'Twice as many poles living in Britain than officials think'

2. What is gatekeeping?

Gatekeeping is the selection and ordering of news broadcasts on TV or the selection and planning of a newspaper layout. Gatekeeping is controlled by the editors who are responsible for their chosen medium.

3. What do we mean by bias?

Bias is a term referred to when taking a particular one-sided viewpoint on a issue or subject despite arguements against. For example, in a football/or sport world cup English citizens/background will support England because they're bias and have an affiliaition to England and don't consider arguement subjectively about the realistic chances of England winning. In the media, a story is mediated from a writers beliefs and the reader/audience is forced to identify with that viewpoint. For example, an political writer will be influenced by their political ideologies no matter how subjective they're meant to be

Dictionary definition: 'A bias is a prejudice in a general or specific sense, usually in the sense for having a preference to one particular point of view or ideological perspective. However, one is generally only said to be biased if one's powers of judgment are influenced by the biases one holds, to the extent that one's views could not be taken as being neutral or objective, but instead as subjective. A bias could, for example, lead one to accept or deny the truth of a claim, not on the basis of the strength of the arguments in support of the claim themselves, but because of the extent of the claim's correspondence with one's own preconceived ideas'