Which News Values Apply In the News
Article?
In 1965,
media researchers Galtung & Ruge analysed international news stories to
find out what factors they had in common, and what factors placed them at the
top of the news agenda worldwide. They came up with the following list of news
values, each value is certain to come at the start of a TV news bulletin, or
make the front page of a newspaper. Journalists and editors also draw heavily
on their experience - of what an audience expects, of what stories have had a
major impact on public consciousness in the past, of what is important - and
each news organisation will have their own system of setting a news agenda.
The telegraph
has used a bold and worrying headline as it says ‘People grab our veils, call
us terrorists and want us dead' the article certainly grabs the reader’s
attention with a dramatic headline, it creates some sympathy towards the
article because the headline is the first thing the accidence readers.
The short introduction underneath the headline seems to be a bit bigger than
the article itself where it says ‘Islamophobia attacks have been on the rise
ever since 9/11, but it is mostly women being attacked, a recent report
suggests. Ava Vidal shares stories from British Muslim women who face every day
awful abuse’ this is a news value of Continuity and narrative because the
incident of 9/11 has been mentioned yet again after many years in this article,
which shows a continuity of the incident, as it is an unforgettable event.
Every article seems to unfold different versions of the event just like this
article but, this article refers towards women in specific who are being
discriminated and attacked ever since 9/11.
Throughout
this article you can see that islamophobia is being presented many times
that they have written is one of the news values which is negativity, the
journalists know that a negative story is able to catch many people attention
rather than a positive one. A bad/negative news stories are more likely to be
reported than good news because they are more likely to score high on other
news values, such as threshold, unexpectedness, unambiguity and meaningfulness.
One of the things that were mentioned in the article was "On the same day
a man in a business suit told me to ‘f**k off’. I was with a white male friend
at the time. We both stopped in our tracks and the white guy who swore turned
around, pointed at me and said, ‘yeah you!” this kind of behaviour has a bigger
impact towards the audience because its seen as something horrible and worrying
because people are hating on others. This type of language has a greater impact
to the audience because it’s something shocking to read. It almost tries to
show the reality of a person who’s going through is kind of abuse and it brings
awareness to this kind of hate and it encourages people to stop doing this and
stop letting others do this.
The article also
features an image of a Muslim women who’s covered herself in a hijab and niqab,
often the society has address the as an oppression, that Muslim women are
oppressed and forced to look like this which links back to negativity because it
doesn’t matter how positive the article is or is socially awaring people about
the discrimination the negative stereotypes are always rated above 'positive' part
of the story. The negative tends to weigh more than the positive side of the
story because it has a greater importance to it.
Another news
value that is interpreted in this article story is proximity, the fact that the
9/11 incident took place in the US it’s easy to say that it has had a huge
impact in the UK as well, because women are also receiving the same hate as the
Muslim women are in the US. This article is published about the impacts on Muslim
women in the UK, shows how quick the hatred has spread to our country. It’s
important for us to acknowledge about it because this is currently happening in
our country as were speaking. The audience that read this news will pay more attention
to this now that is this occurring in the UK because they can relate more to
stories that are close to them that involves people from their country.
The personalisation
news value is used very well in this article and can also be seen quite interesting
to read since it has a story that particularly centres around a certain person,
because they can be presented from a 'human interest' angle. The audience may
find this article much more interesting to read because it’s from a real person
who’s been through this kind of experience and can they speak about it and be
honest about themselves just like Zab Mustefa does as she explains her side of
the story; rather than read an over-rate personality stories, particularly
those involves celebrities. I think that the audience likes to that read these
personalised stories and are much more attentive about them and really care
about a real story rather than a famous person/celebrity whom can can’t really
relate to because they differ from each other.
Overall there
are many news values that are presented in this article and I think they are
very important to have because they set out a form of boundaries that
newspapers and journalists should regard when publishing a story. They really
form the shape of the articles and really take in to consideration each value
and represent them as to what type of journalists or Newspaper Company they
are.
