The degree of the prominence a media outlet gives to a story, and the attention that is paid by an audience
Whats alright to get out into general society? Who makes the decision of what is newsworthy and what's not? What structures are used to control pragmatics, impact and influence? Questions like these were explored in the lecture.
Surprisingly there has been a lot of structured writing about news values and what different individuals find important with this journalistic issue. Murray Masterson categorised news values into; significance- or in other words its impact on the audience, proximity- not only the locational closeness and relevance to the audience but its emotional, historical and social significance to its location. He continued with the category of conflict- everything war and governments, the nitty gritty of our world and power. Finally its human interest quality, pretty much we are all inquisitive creatures who want to know the dark and dirty about everyone, especially celebrities and public figures.
It really all comes down to what is newsworthy. But what is newsworthy? The cold hard facts, the frilly celeb goss, whats leading in medicine or who won the footy? I guess its all up to personal taste and what each reader is looking for out of their news. But I think everyone should be informed of the important issues even if all they care about is who's lost their baby weight and what model is now dating George Clooney. A bit of depth people, wouldn't hurt.
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