Also the law states that it has to be real and there are regulations to ensure that news, in whatever form, is supposedly reported with "due accuracy" and presented with "due impartiality". For example OFCOM has a whole section in its regulations about this very topic: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code/section-five-due-impartiality-accuracy
But can the news ever really be like this? in this post I am going to try and show that it is impossible for any media representation to simply show reality to us in this way.
Firstly if everything was shown the news would last forever. There are news values that they have to consider when broadcasting a story I am only going to mention some of these. This was created by Galtung and Ruge an there first value was frequency which means that if it is a short term event it will be more likely to get put on the news. These sort of events, such as murder, are preferred over a long term event such as global warming.
Unexpectedness is another way that the news story will make it onto the broadcast. It is the the surprise and rarity of an event that will help it get recognized. For this to be considered it also has to meaningful. The event that comes to mind when I think of this is the Boston bomb attack as it was unexpected and it really hit hard.
Negativity is a good thing in the news because bad news is good news. The worse the event is the more attention it is going to gather because it will make people notice what is happening in the world and it may cause panic and worry throughout the world.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/actress-sharon-tate-found-murdered
The gate-keeping process is quite a big thing that the people putting the news together have to go through to make sure that people are getting the most important news that the audience could be seeing. The list of things that they have to look at is as followed; news values, news source, routines of news gathering, construction of news story (narrative) and economics. If all of these are a match it will get onto the news. The fact that it has to go through this process just so that people can find out about what is going on in the world just goes to show that everything we see isn't as untouched as they claim it to be. They also claim that they will show us absolutely everything that happens in the world but they won't because it has to go through this process. What see here proves to me that the news is not a window on the world at all.
Even though they claim that the news is completely real, when filming it they use the continuity system which is more commonly used in fiction. This takes away from the fact that we are meant to believe that everything that they are showing us actually happened. They often tell us the news in a story like format which makes it harder to believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU2wsmjgqtQ
I do not think that the news is a window on the world as it has to go through all of these different processes. The fact that it does this turns it from a window into a slit that hardly anything can get through as it has to meet every criteria. The most important thing to the news is competition and getting the news broadcasted first. The news can be biased as it show the viewer what they want us to see. They are willing to make people look worse just to make someone else look better. for example they do this with Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May.
Firstly if everything was shown the news would last forever. There are news values that they have to consider when broadcasting a story I am only going to mention some of these. This was created by Galtung and Ruge an there first value was frequency which means that if it is a short term event it will be more likely to get put on the news. These sort of events, such as murder, are preferred over a long term event such as global warming.
Unexpectedness is another way that the news story will make it onto the broadcast. It is the the surprise and rarity of an event that will help it get recognized. For this to be considered it also has to meaningful. The event that comes to mind when I think of this is the Boston bomb attack as it was unexpected and it really hit hard.
Negativity is a good thing in the news because bad news is good news. The worse the event is the more attention it is going to gather because it will make people notice what is happening in the world and it may cause panic and worry throughout the world.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/actress-sharon-tate-found-murdered
The gate-keeping process is quite a big thing that the people putting the news together have to go through to make sure that people are getting the most important news that the audience could be seeing. The list of things that they have to look at is as followed; news values, news source, routines of news gathering, construction of news story (narrative) and economics. If all of these are a match it will get onto the news. The fact that it has to go through this process just so that people can find out about what is going on in the world just goes to show that everything we see isn't as untouched as they claim it to be. They also claim that they will show us absolutely everything that happens in the world but they won't because it has to go through this process. What see here proves to me that the news is not a window on the world at all.
Even though they claim that the news is completely real, when filming it they use the continuity system which is more commonly used in fiction. This takes away from the fact that we are meant to believe that everything that they are showing us actually happened. They often tell us the news in a story like format which makes it harder to believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU2wsmjgqtQ
I do not think that the news is a window on the world as it has to go through all of these different processes. The fact that it does this turns it from a window into a slit that hardly anything can get through as it has to meet every criteria. The most important thing to the news is competition and getting the news broadcasted first. The news can be biased as it show the viewer what they want us to see. They are willing to make people look worse just to make someone else look better. for example they do this with Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May.
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