Investigating News and News Manipulation
In this essay I shall give reference to what news is and the
manipulation used by News agencies who select information at a
particular time for a particular audience, giving examples of two news
articles I have found in ‘The Guardian’ news paper to help portray how
they achieve this.
News is fresh events reported through media. It is most often than not
stories that effect people all over the world. News is gathered mainly
by primary research in order to be accurate in articles written and to
find a angel to the story. When news agencies (which are companies
that supply most of the media in the western world, with stories of
major events and the way they should be perceived by readers) decides
a story does not fit in with their agenda they do not print it and
leave readers uninformed. Usually stories that seem more important to
the readers are used. Once the articles have been written up it is
then up to the Gatekeeper who is usually a news editor or sub-editor
decides which stories make the final cut and once they have been
chosen they then prioritised the articles most commonly the ones they
believe to be more important go to the ones they believe to be
important go to the front, the first page being the most important
story in their opinion and are organised in order of priority after
that, from the front to the back of the news paper. News bias also
plays a big role in the way the article is presented and what angle it
is given.
Looking at ‘The Guardian’ dated Friday 15th October’ I have found two
articles. I have found that according to news values, and the values
used by journalists to prioritise one news story over another.
Firstly I looked at page 3 of ‘The Guardian’ on which I saw a big
photographic image of Prince Harry. This article was titled ‘Teacher
taped Harry to prove he cheated at art AS Level’. The article informs
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