The reason I believe this type of broadcasting is quite popular is because it gives you a quick fix of news if you're in a rush or just need an update. It's particularly handy having something like this you can just "flick on" during the advert breaks of a TV show without having to watch an entire news broadcast.
This particular broadcast had the 26 yr old Sam Naz as the presenter. She's quite popular in and around the BBC and is not shy of being on TV, when she began in 2003 as a News Reader. These people quite literally present the news to you over the TV, radio or any other form of multimedia. They are usually at a desk, but can be at the scene / near the scene of the news report. You're expected to be a great speaker and be extremely confident with the camera. You should try to be enthusiastic and in a sense "promote" what you are saying. You should always try to be typically unbiased towards your news report, as this could reflect back on the station you present on.
News ordering is the order that the stories are shown in. Just as I explained above, it will either be because of breaking news, importance and how much it will affect the person watching the news. Breaking news is slightly different though as it literally breaks the news order, this could be due to a major event which takes priority over anything else. Prospect lists are things that the editors come up with to possibly put on the broadcast. The editor can then cross out and re-arrange the news order as to how he/she sees the best fit. A slow news day is when more trivial stories are covered because there is not enough interesting topics to cover, they would look towards the prospect list and work things out over the broadcast. News values are how you know how much light you should give towards a story, and the guidelines are used by newspapers and TV broadcasts alike. Galtung and Ruge came up with this idea through common interests throughout the news and made a 'scoring system' with a list of values to see how big of an impact the story had on the general public.
The values they had listed are:
Negativity: Stories which don't give happiness, stuff like "Child murdered by dad" or "Plane crashes into WTC".
Close to Home: More local news things, for example if it was about Lowestoft it could be "Lowestoft Fishing Brought Back To Life!".
Recency: A fight to be the first to report breaking news, newspapers are a culprit for this.
Currency: A story which runs for a long time but is still popular, such as the Madeline McAnne case.
Continuity: Interesting reports which leave the audience wanting more and more, keep wanting them to tune in. Things like long haul police chases, or a missing person.
Uniqueness: Quirky things which grab your eye: "Man eats computer a day for 30 days" would be one.
Simple: Easy to understand news headlines which get straight to the point: "Tree burnt down in forest"
Personality: Usually these news reports are about someone, most commonly someone in the public eye. For example "Justin Bieber has a new girlfriend!"
Expect: If a news story was exactly what you expect it to be, or what everyone is saying it will be.
Elite: A story which covers someone with power, or a huge nation. For example a terrorist attack in USA would overshadow a terror attack in Mexico.
Exclusive: If a station gets an exclusive to interview someone or something, maybe about an event or recent happening it will generate a lot of attention.
Size: How big the story really is. A cat getting stuck up a tree is less important than a train crash killing 50 people.
In the broadcast, it mostly covered the Adam Johnson case which was a huge scandal at that time. The reason for this being and having a huge feature is due to his prominence, or "eliteness". Being a celebrity footballer and being accused of sexual assault is degrading, but it's also incredible news for the news stations. They can get a lot of viewers very easily and just like G and R said, this news story would come under the Personality section, which generates a lot of attention. Adam is represented as a bad person, which is completely understandable due to the nature of what he's being accused for. The news made it seem and feel like he was guilty, and I really did not like Adam for what he did. The media directly influenced me to think that Adam is a sick man. This news story was at the front, which obviously showed how important it is.
Bias is a huge problem within the media industry because you are always trying to remain unbiased towards everyones opinions. Some editors specifically remove stories as it doesn't fit their agenda and they are bias towards another view. A great example of this is when President Trump was running for president. While Fox News only ever showed the good, CNN only ever showed the bad giving this huge clash between media and it influenced pretty much everyone. Bias placement is when you simply put something at the front so more people would see it, pushing your agenda more than anything else. Biased headlines also exist, and they would go along the lines of making sure it sounds much more interesting than it actually is.
A photo bias is specifcally choosing a bad photo to put the celebrity in question in bad light. A good example is of Trumpo boarding a plane and his hair flying everywhere. There was a lot of shots taken that time, but this one was specifcally chosen because we all know Trump hates his hair. Bias through names and titles is quite eays to explain, its when the editor will usually get something bad from you and then use it against you. Finally, bias through language is a good one to speak about as it can be used to promote a bad message. For example instead of terrorist, it could be scum, scumbag or even more.
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