Presentation and Selection of News

• Presentation of news

  Couldry

  found 85% of people regularly watched TV for news - at least 3 times a week
• presentation of news

  Chandler

  news presenters are depicted as ' neutral ' observers in the way they dress formally and read auto cues
• Presentation of news TV news

  Buckingham

  found 12-15 year olds children saw TV news as honest and trustworthy - they accepted what was said which was beyond their experience
• presentation of news is the news is impartial?

  Dennis McQuail

  rejects the notion the news is impartial - not all news is reported, the multiplicity of events mitigates against this
• Presentation of the news news values

  Spencer Thomas

  referring to what what journalists and editors consider ' news worthy '
• Presentation of news McLurg's law

  suggests that one British life was worth 5 dead Frenchmen, 20 dead Egyptians, 500 dead Indians and 1000 dead Chinese in terms of news coverage