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.
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.
You picked an interesting and controversial news story and you do understand news values. however you need to make your references to the values more explicit- taking each value in turn and analysing how it applies, using examples including image analysis. C- (Vanessa)
ReplyDeleteSome strong improvements Layba. You've improved the structure, and examples are much more clearly introduced and elaborated upon. B+
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