suggests that instead of the owners of media it is the journalists that control the media narrative
Hegemonic model news values
Galtung and Rouge
general guidelines that determine the worth of a news story
Journalists only publish stories that fit the news values and what they know sells
Hegemonic model weltanschauung
Weber
means one view of the world
suggests that the media portray only one view of the world and that is the view of the privileged classes - journalists publish to please their bosses
Hegemonic model referring upwards
Boulton
journalists learn how stories should be presented and what are the important issues that should be reported - they quickly learn how to think about how their immediate superior will react to a particular story or approach
Hegemonic model gatekeepers
Lewin
journalists let through stories they think will not offend the elite and stop stories that may lead to political reform
make decisions on what stories and how stories feature within the news
