Construction of the News - News Values - Citizen Journalism

The textbook is nice and straightforward about this, pages 149-153 need to be learnt and understood but, in my humble opinion, there’s nothing there that won’t make sense to you.

We should take a closer look at ‘News Values’, specifically the work of  Galtung and Ruge (1965) and  Spencer-Thomas (2008).  Here is a link to S-Thomas’ own website and his info on news values. 

Galtung and Ruge are covered quite comprehensively in textbook pages 152-153.

You need notes and understanding of their work!

We should also take a closer look at Citizen journalism because it is a new development linked to the internet...

Citizen Journalism

What is citizen journalism? (you need to have a short definition of this in your pretty little heads)

Here are some famous examples...

Salam Pax:

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Arab Spring:

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Is citizen journalism a good idea?

For and against citizen journalism, here  and what is the role and value of citizen journalism?  Here!

The overwhelming case for plurality

'This is not just about Rupert Murdoch – allowing media power to be concentrated in the hands of a few multibillionaires will impoverish society'  Here!'

In 1987 I returned to a country beset by class and inequality. And it still is.

'In 1987 the Observer's Robert Chesshyre returned from the US and was so shocked at Thatcher's Britain that he wrote a book about it. Now it has been republished in an era that remains eerily similar'   Here!


Why economic inequality leads to collapse.

'During the past 30 years, a growing share of the global economic pie has been taken by the world's wealthiest people. In the UK and the US, the share of national income going to the top 1% has doubled, setting workforces adrift from economic progress. Today, the world's 1,200 billionaires hold economic firepower that is equivalent to a third of the size of the American economy.'  Here!

Return to capitalism 'red in tooth and claw' spells economic madness

'Particularly in the United States and Britain since the 1980s, we have witnessed a return to the capitalism "red in tooth and claw" depicted by Karl Marx. The rich and very rich have become very much richer, while everyone else's incomes have stagnated'.

Here!

Google reports 'alarming' rise in censorship by governments

Search engine company has said there has been a troubling increase in requests to remove political content from the internet

Here!

Child poverty figures drop, but remain above 2 million

Article here





I only parked it there for a minute!



More Media documentaries!

Watch at least the first 15 mins of 'Orwell Rolls in his Grave'.  Full of fun facts about media control etc!
thoughtmaybe    this website has loads of excellent stuff.

Lots of media documentaries here!  such as this one Operation Saddam — America’s Propaganda War