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crime term 1 media (newsworthiness (news values case study: Madeleine…

- - - - different from one medium to another
        
        but also within a medium
        
        different between the sun to the times as well as the new yorker as tis different culture and country
        
        tabloids focus on big headlines and pictures
      - change over time
      - interested in the symbolic references
      - the consumer
        
        allows us to engage in a moral ritual by reading the news
      - phonological response
      - interested in durkheim
  - - - 12 contemporary news values
        
        threshold
        
        predictablitiy
        
        simplification
        
        individualism
        
        risk
        
        sex
        
        celebrity
        
        proximity
        
        violence and conflict
        
        visual spectacle
        
        children
        
        conservative ideology and political diversion
      - news values 1
        
        threshold
        
        events have to meet a certain level of perceived importance or drama to be considered newsworthy
        
        local, natuional, global
        
        story needs to meet lots of different criteria
        
        needs to be keep alive creating new threshold
        
        new angles
        
        intervies
        
        statistics
        
        keep the story fresh
        
        predictability
        
        media can plan and organise
        
        unpredictable
        
        new crime
        
        media expect something
        
        decide on an angle organise and plan
        
        simplification
        
        must be reducible to a minimum number of parts or themes
        
        brevity and clarity
        
        seven part in play
        
        clarity
        
        not meant to be open to interpretation
        
        no own opinion
        
        especially if it doesn't agree
        
        deals in binary oppositions
        
        black vs white
        
        bad vs good
  - - - individual responses to crime are preferred to cultural and political understandings
      - society obsessed with risk
    - - modern society characterised by risk
        
        raoul moat
      - news sells to us
        
        fear of crime is more about personal safety
  - - - sex and violence powerfully combine to illustrate the value of risk
        
        illustrate the value of risk
      - over report crimes of sexual nature
      - storys high graphic
        
        rarely reported without sexual reference to their sexual history
        
        victims eroticised
        
        sex sells
    - - intrinsically interesting to the public
      - wesley snipes
        
        sent to prison for failing to do tax returns years earilier
      - level of deviance lower if related to celebrity
        
        threshold already meet as celebrity
      - white collar boring crime becomes big news
  - - - spatial - affects local and national news
      - cultural - political climate and cultural mood
        
        victims
      - ethnocentrism
      - look inwards for news
      - victim
        
        what do they look like, gender, class, age
        
        ideal victim
        
        madeline macaine
        
        attract people attention and sympathy
    - - pushes boundaries of what is acceptable
      - dramatic and graphic fashion
      - constantly pushing the boundaries
    - - visual given greater credence by public
      - citizen journalism
      - if we see rather than read it feels like it has more power
      - visual cultural
        
        sharing on social media
        
        selfie
        
        putting ourselves into the moment
        
        rise of citizen journalist
  - - - morality campaign
      - newsworthiness
        
        either victim or offender
        
        pre-teens as evil
    - - rely on right wing consensus
      - intolerance of anyone or anything that transgresses the essentially conservative agenda
- - - - 'blue devils' and 'peels bloody gang'
    - - the blue lamp, dixon of dock green, andy griffith show
    - - softly softly, the weeny, traffic, the departed
  - - - 'blue devils' 'pigs' 'peels bloody gang'
- - - - its nature is presented in a STYLISED AND STEREOTYPICAL fashion by the MASS MEDIA; the MORAL BARRICADES are manned by EDITORS, bishops, politiacans and other right thinking people; SOCIALLY ACCREDITED experts pronounces their diagnoses and solutions; ways of coping are evolved or (more often) resorted to; the condition then disappears, submerges or deteriorates and becomes more visible. (Cohen, 1972, p.9)
  - - - e.g. dangerous dogs
        
        panic and questioning
  - - - reported events are symptomatic
      - a moral element
    - - would be no panic without the medal as they create and maintain it
        
        people actually speaking are not experts
  - - - media legitimated hegemonic ideals and impacts certain member of society in inlaced ways
    - - how and why do the media choose which stores to report
    - - work on these issues has been done
- - - - can't take them at face value
    - - police
    - - more news worthy over missing girl in York ( sexual history, blonde, student) over any missing man
      - edit words and carefully select images
        
        frame a story in a particular way
    - - academic writing online
- - - - 5 seasons : the drug trade, the port, the city bureaucracy, the school system and the print news media
      - deglamourises crime fighting
      - visual novel
        
        not selling hope, or audience gratification, or cheap victories with this show. the wire is making argument about what institutions, bureaucracies, criminal enterprises, the cultures of addiction, raw capitalism even - do to individuals. it is not designed purely as an entertainment. it is, I'm afraid, a somewhat angry show
      - authentic fiction
    - - drug organisational structures : 'the rules of the game'
        
        chess pieces are metaphors for key players in the drug businesss
        
        queen 'go get shit done piece'
        
        pawns are the most expendable
        
        the kind 'stay the king'
        
        castle = the stash
- - - - agenda setting
      - framing story