I recently watched BBC One Look East from the 21st of March 2016. The opening story was based on the East Anglia devolution, they then continued onto a story about a Norwich bus being evacuated due to a suspicious object being left. The third story was about a young adult male factory worker who has just been found guilty of murdering his pregnant ex girlfriend. The second from last story contained information about another women who was murdered days before giving birth. The final story was on a Chelmsford United Fan who was left brain damage after being attacked just after a football game. The whole story leads to a happy end when His wife, family, friends and also the local community helping to raise money so that he can move around easily at home.
The presenter of this broadcast is Amelia Reynolds. She works for Look East but also is a News Journalist. The job of a newsreader is to present to to a wide range audience, this could be on Television, Radio or even the Internet. As I said above Amelia Reynolds is also a News Journalist, this means she helps collect the news she is going to present. This helps her understand the different story's and how they are placed in the news values. This brings me on to discuss news values, and the prospect list.
The prospect list, is a list of all the possible news stories that could be aired on the day of broadcasting, this list can change before they air, due to stories changing or a delay for example if a subject cannot make an interview date. The different stories on the prospect list all fit into news values.
News values are guidelines used by the media, to clarify how much prominence to give a story. For example here is a few of the news values.
The top value on this list Is Negativity, this is one of the most common news values, that you see in most media outlets. Its the one everybody hates to hear, but draws the attention of the audience. Negativity comes under bad news for example involving a death (tragedy) violence and bankruptcy. For example, In the news broadcast I mentioned at the very beginning, The negative story was the young adult factory worker who murdered his ex girlfriend while she was heavily pregnant. The negativity in this story is that she was murdered.
Another News Value is closeness to home (proximity). This news value draws the attention of the audience who live extremely close to a big story. This draws the attention of the viewers who are local. For example In the news broadcast on Look East, the closeness to home story was the suspicious object that was left on the Norwich bus, and how it had to evacuate its passengers.
Exclusivity is another important news value, this is when the news or a newspaper is the first and only company to have a story, the UK Sunday papers are extremely popular for this. Here is a link to a Sunday exclusive story. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ This link clicks to a story that has just recently happened where a teenage couple are badly injured while on the white-knuckle ride at M&DS Theme Park.
One broadcast that I have found was about how the media demonises teenagers for wearing hoodies, and tracksuit bottoms, and that the way they dress makes them look like 'scum' In the story the teenagers are present, they are presented as 'scum' and 'inhuman' People would avoid the area that the teenagers would hang out due to the way they dressed and the way they were stereotyped. I personally dont believe they should be stereotyped, clothing should not decide if a person is bad or not. The construction was poor, it was a struggle to follow the new event, due to the changes of set going from different teenagers rather than focusing on a certain group.
News stories can be bias through placement which is a form of bias within media texts. placement of the story can determine its importance for example if the story is on the front cover of the news paper it would come across as important where as if the story was in the back it would seem less important. Here is the daily express, as you can see almost every title story has a negative word that gives a bias opinion.
Another form of bias, is through selection and omission this means that a new story has left out vital information, that gives the audience a view on the situation with out knowing the full story, A very good example of this would be when Madeline Mcann first got kidnapped, the news were so quick to release the story that they missed out the vital information, giving the parents sympathy, when the parents left the children in the room while they went for a meal.
there are many different ways to be bias one is through shot selection and camera angles, if a camera angle is high up and the subject is low down, this could show that they are weak and afraid, or have done something wrong to make them feel low, but if the camera angle is from low down and the subject or object is high up then this shows power and will come across as something good. here is an example the image to the left is taken at a low angle giving the subject and object power.
The prospect list, is a list of all the possible news stories that could be aired on the day of broadcasting, this list can change before they air, due to stories changing or a delay for example if a subject cannot make an interview date. The different stories on the prospect list all fit into news values.
News values are guidelines used by the media, to clarify how much prominence to give a story. For example here is a few of the news values.
The top value on this list Is Negativity, this is one of the most common news values, that you see in most media outlets. Its the one everybody hates to hear, but draws the attention of the audience. Negativity comes under bad news for example involving a death (tragedy) violence and bankruptcy. For example, In the news broadcast I mentioned at the very beginning, The negative story was the young adult factory worker who murdered his ex girlfriend while she was heavily pregnant. The negativity in this story is that she was murdered.
Another News Value is closeness to home (proximity). This news value draws the attention of the audience who live extremely close to a big story. This draws the attention of the viewers who are local. For example In the news broadcast on Look East, the closeness to home story was the suspicious object that was left on the Norwich bus, and how it had to evacuate its passengers.
Exclusivity is another important news value, this is when the news or a newspaper is the first and only company to have a story, the UK Sunday papers are extremely popular for this. Here is a link to a Sunday exclusive story. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ This link clicks to a story that has just recently happened where a teenage couple are badly injured while on the white-knuckle ride at M&DS Theme Park.
One broadcast that I have found was about how the media demonises teenagers for wearing hoodies, and tracksuit bottoms, and that the way they dress makes them look like 'scum' In the story the teenagers are present, they are presented as 'scum' and 'inhuman' People would avoid the area that the teenagers would hang out due to the way they dressed and the way they were stereotyped. I personally dont believe they should be stereotyped, clothing should not decide if a person is bad or not. The construction was poor, it was a struggle to follow the new event, due to the changes of set going from different teenagers rather than focusing on a certain group.
News stories can be bias through placement which is a form of bias within media texts. placement of the story can determine its importance for example if the story is on the front cover of the news paper it would come across as important where as if the story was in the back it would seem less important. Here is the daily express, as you can see almost every title story has a negative word that gives a bias opinion.
Another form of bias, is through selection and omission this means that a new story has left out vital information, that gives the audience a view on the situation with out knowing the full story, A very good example of this would be when Madeline Mcann first got kidnapped, the news were so quick to release the story that they missed out the vital information, giving the parents sympathy, when the parents left the children in the room while they went for a meal.
there are many different ways to be bias one is through shot selection and camera angles, if a camera angle is high up and the subject is low down, this could show that they are weak and afraid, or have done something wrong to make them feel low, but if the camera angle is from low down and the subject or object is high up then this shows power and will come across as something good. here is an example the image to the left is taken at a low angle giving the subject and object power. 
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