social construction of news

• news values


  frequency

  negativity

  unexpectedness

  elite nations

  elite persons
• news as social construct

  events covered in newspapers dont reflect wide range of things happening in reality

  created through people putting values and biases on events
• GALTUNG AND RUGE influence of news values


  way media is organised depends on what journalists see as newsworthy

  criteria to determine what is newsworthy

  more news values = more likely to appear in news