News Values: Blog task

 1) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage?

The daily mail asylum story "your right to worry". it is likely to gain coverage because it is relevant to the uk and features an interesting unique topic.

2) What is gatekeeping?

Gatekeeping is the process of filtering information.

3) What are the six ways bias can be created in news?

Bias through selection and

omission

Bias through placement

Bias by headline

Bias by photos, captions, and

camera angles

Bias through use of names

and titles

Bias by choice of words

4) How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers or Wikileaks changed the way news is selected and published?

One could argue that their only agenda is to bring about transparency and freedom of speech, this offers a way for audiences to access news stories that may have been meditated or censored prior to being reported.

5) In your opinion, how has the digital age changed Galtung and Ruge’s news values? 

The digital age has allowed for an evergrowing base of opinions to be heard and shared however overall many peoples ideologies and approaches to opinions remain the same.

6) How would you update these news values for the digital age? Choose TWO of Galtung and Ruge's news values and say how they have been affected by the growth of digital technology.

 

Continuity as due to the growth of digital technology there are a multitude of sources making it harder to pinpoint sources and valid sources of information, another one would be immediacy as now there is more competition.