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Frequency -

The time span of an event and the extent to which it fits the frequency of the newspaper's or news broadcast's schedule.

"Suicide Bomb hits US Afghan base during Cheney Visit" - the headline suggests that it wasan accident. It's an issue that is re-occuring at the time as bombings and suicidal bombing are constantly happening.

Thereshold -

How big is an event? Is it big enough to make it into the news?

"The Oscar Awards Ceremony" - this was huge in America yet it affected all countries. The Best director went to Martin Scorsese for The Departed.

Unambiguity -

"Ante and postnatal depression affects 1 in 7 women"

The message is clear just in the title of the article. although the article is only small the message is still given in brief in the title.

Meaningfulness –

How meaningful will the event appear to the receivers of the news? Hartley stresses in this context what he refers to as “cultural proximity”. Events happening in cultures very different from ours will not be seen as being inherently meaningful to audiences here.



Unexpectednes-

"Baby brought back to life after heart attack"

This is unexpected because you dont expect a baby especially to die and then come back alive.



Consonance –

Does this event match the audience’s expectations? Journalists have a pretty good idea of the angle from which they want to report an event, even before they get there.


Continuity –

Once an event has been covered, it is convenient to continue to cover it – the running story.


Composition –

This is a matter of the balance of the news. It is a master of the editors’ judgement, more than anything else. A different news broadcast will have a different agenda in terms of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ news, for example, usually dependant on the perceived target audience.

The story that is usually printed are based on the editors point of views.

Reference to elite nations –

This again relates to ‘cultural proximity’. Those nations which are culturally closest to our own will receive most of the courage.


Reference to elite person –

The media pay attention to important people. Anyone the media pay attention to must be important (cult of the celebrity).


Personalisation –

Events being seen as actions of individuals.

"husband of special constable arrested over her murder"

this suggests that the personality of the person has been exploitedd..

Negativity –

Bad news is good news in terms of what is reported.

Galtung and Ruge

Frequency – The time – span of an event and the extent to which it fits the frequency of the newspaper’s or news broadsheet’s schedule.

Big Brother issue with Shilpa Shetty and Jade Goody. This turned into a world wide issue as it was plastered all over the news and broadsheet AND tabloid news papers about the factor concerning “racism”.

Thereshold – How big is an event? Is it big enough to make it into the news?

The event was discussed at every time of the day, showing that it was important and a crucial issue that had to be raised. The fact that it was published nationally suggests that the event was huge, and therefore also states that a lot of people were affected by it.

Unambiguity – How clear is the meaning of the message?

With the “racism” event, the message being conveyed that racism is against the law and also the fact that they were all celebrity’s before entering the Big Brother house and the house just brought out their real side and what kinds of people they really were.

Meaningfulness – How meaningful will the event appear to the receivers of the news? Hartley stresses in this context what he refers to as “cultural proximity”. Events happening in cultures very different from ours will not be seen as being inherently meaningful to audiences here.

The event was definitely important and did have a massive impact on those in others parts of the world. The fact that such a controversial issue was raised, had the entire world interested in the news event. Also because the main victim was being bullied AND racially attacked, was not from the UK, and was from India instead drew a vast majority from the Indian culture. Also we know that they were particularly interested in the subject regardless of what race or religion they are, as it included other news information too. Like the fact that Carphone Warehouse discontinued their sponsorship with Big Brother.

Consonance – Does this event match the audience’s expectations? Journalists have a pretty good idea of the angle from which they want to report an event, even before they get there.

This racism issue was perceived by the nation to make Jade Goody look like the bad bully. Throughout the two last weeks Jade was in the Big Brother house everyone paid close attention towards Jades actions and words. The audience were forced by the news that Jade, Jo, and Danielle were the three beasts and Shilpa was a huge beauty. The audience were geared against Jade’s point of view and towards Shilpa as she was a favourite of the press.

Unexpectedness – ‘Man Bites Dog’ is news. If an event is highly unpredictable, then it is likely to make it into the news.

The news about Shilpa saying that she despised Jade was not news. We were more likely to have hoped that this is true, however, we know that Shilpa was too much of a nice person to say anything of that sort. The press deceive us as an audience and trick us into believing things on a front page of usually a tabloid newspaper which tend to display false and gossip information. By doing this the audience are interested and therefore tempted to buy the magazine or newspaper.

Continuity – Once an event has been covered, it is convenient to continue to cover it – the running story.


Composition – This is a matter of the balance of the news. It is a master of the editors’ judgement, more than anything else. A different news broadcast will have a different agenda in terms of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ news, for example, usually dependant on the perceived target audience.

Clearly, with they racism issue, not one article I or anyone I am aware of has read an interview or a comment suggesting that they agree with Jades actions or that they do not think Jade was in the wrong. One news article on Sky news I had read, the news reporter may I re-call ‘beauty and the three beast’ situation an excuse for ‘being uneducated and of low society class … people who did not know how to conduct themselves’. This to us is hard hitting news as the reporter has harshly named and shamed these bullies.

Reference to elite nations – This again relates to ‘cultural proximity’. Those nations which are culturally closest to our own will receive most of the courage.

In this case, this is a false assumption as India and the UK are the main two nations which received the maximum coverage. This is because everyone whom was involved was from either the UK or India. Therefore it would have interested them more than other countries. But however, that doesn’t go to say that other countries were not interested, because the issue was nation wide and therefore held interests of each and every individual including myself.

Reference to elite person – The media pay attention to important people. Anyone the media pay attention to must be important (cult of the celebrity).

This is important to remember as in this situation Shilpa Shetty herself was idolised all around the world, primarily by Asians, but also other nationalities too. This followed a cult of celebrity, not only in her own country, nor only in the UK, where the event was taken place, but in America, Tom Cruise has suggested that he would like to be in a movie with Shilpa Shetty as a main actress in there.

Personalisation – Events being seen as actions of individuals.

This was displayed all over the news, when Jade, Jo and Danielle were exploited by the press and the media and the audiences of the show and therefore proven to be bullies. The press adapted what they thought the personalities of the individuals were, rather than actually getting to know their back ground.

Negativity – Bad news is good news in terms of what is reported.

The more worse news gets, the better it is for those writing the stories. Audience buy stories with juicy gossip and hatred. Therefore, magazines intend on attracting certain types of audiences and appealing to different people. The racism story was total bad news and this meant good news to the press. Therefore however many news papers were published was determined by the amount of people who agree with what is being advertised on the front covers of news papers and magazines.

Homework

The cult of the celebrity:

How much celebrity – driven media do you consume? Do you consume these texts in spite of the celebrity focus or because of it?

I read a lot of celebrity magazines including, bliss, heat, OK and I read a lot of tabloid newspapers. For example, The Sun. I consume these texts primarily because I find celebrity gossip interesting and enjoyable.

In what ways are celebrity related stories presented in this edition?

Hmm… In OK most contemporary celebrities are featured. For example, just recently there was one OK magazine all about Shilpa Shetty and the majority of that particular magazine was based around the Big Brother series of the time.

Accounting for these presentations?

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What is paparazzi photographer?
Its someone whose job is to take pictures of celebrities and sell them to newspapers.

News Values:

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Internet video downloads are said to be causing traffic jams and problems for internet uses, according to Google. Services such as YouTube, tricky for internet providers to deal with and new developments could create even more problems, senior internet executives were told.

Google have stated that they will no offer quality of service to those consumers.

Servers around the world already are begiining to use sites such as YouTube to watch videos on, but video filesharing services are increasing pressure on the internets capacity. "One of the unwitting culprits is BitTorrent, a technology already used by millions of people to obtain high-quality video over the net. ", this is mainly used by people to watch US sitcoms or TV seris's like Lost, which have not yet been sen in thisUK.

However, BitTorrent has proved controversial with Hollywood because many people also use it to download movies illegally. That's why later this month (feb), it is expected that a legitimate movie downloading site may be available in conjuction with some major studios.

BitTorrent hope to draw in mainstreamers with this new system whch will only be showing leagal texts and documents. another BitTorrent-based service, Zudeo, recently signed a deal with the BBC to distribute programmes outside the UK and the corporation is currently testing its own iPlayer download system.

Despite the relatively small number of users, research indicates that systems such as BitTorrent are responsible for more than 50% of all internet traffic. Some executives fear that without proper investment, video download services could clog up the internet and cause online gridlock.

Not everyone believes the problem is straightforward.

Jonathan Arber, a technology analyst with Ovum, said internet capacity existed in abundance but the question was whether ISPs were prepared to invest their money to keep up with developments.

"It's not the case that the internet wasn't designed for video, because it wasn't really designed for anything," he said.

"The problem is that media companies are starting to use these peer-to-peer methods to distribute videos but the internet providers are the ones paying for it."
The concerns come jus a short whileee after hackers triedto overload some of the internet's and te worlds most improtant computers.

Three of the internet's 13 "root servers" were struck as the hackers tried to overwhelm them in a 12-hour onslaught. The attack ultimately failed, however, as the targeted computers struggled but remained operational.

My View!!!!
i think that internet downloading shouldnt be a problem if people are actually paying for it. However, sites such as YouTube is not actually downloading on to youer computer, instead people are just watching the videos on this siute. this cannot cause people to hack into your computer, nor can it cause viruses.
I think that