Tuesday, December 18, 2007

News Values

I watched the BBC 6'O Clock news and the Channel 4 News at 7pm on Tuesday 18Th December.
BBC first 5 stories:
-New party leader elected for the Lib Dems (Nick Clegg)
-Alleged rape at a hotel where Man Utd players had their Xmas party
-Treasury has extended financial guarantees to Northern Rock
-Should fruit be shipped thousands of miles to supermarkets?
-Immigrant workers are keeping Britain afloat

Threshold- northern rock having continuous problems, people withdrawing all their savings and they are currently looking for a new buyer. Also the new Lib Dem leader being elected. As they would have the job of persuading the nation in voting for them in the next election.
Continuity - The northern Rock and Lib Dem election
Meaningfulness- The northern rock story involves government issues and people may have lost money

Channel 4 first 5 stories:
-Northern Rock taxpayers exposed
-New lib dem leader elected
- New president elected for South Africa
- BBC censors word from Christmas fairytale
- Amy Winehouse arrested

Reference to elite persons - new president elected for South Africa
Composition - Amy winehouse being arrested(celebrity news)
Threshold- northern rock having continuous problems, people withdrawing all their savings and they are currently looking for a new buyer. Also the new Lib Dem leader being elected. As they would have the job of persuading the nation in voting for them in the next election.
Continuity - The northern Rock and Lib Dem election

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