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News Selection and Production - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Audiences are manipulated for sales- the more people that read a story, the more can access it, leading to a greater opportunity for moral panic.
    - - Galtung and Ruge
    - - Marxist (Hall and Marcuse)
        
        Serves the needs of capitalists, where certain groups are labelled as folk devils to help distract and divide populations, but not against the state.
        
        Most moral antics occur in times of economic uncertainty, as with the ”Black Muggings”
    - - Cohen and Young Assume that audiences share moral concerns so publish stories they think th audience want- including repeating stories.
  - - - New media allows for moral panics to spread more quickly through interactivity, consumers become producers.
        
        Citizen journalism could reflect issues the general public are genuinely concerned about.
        
        This could also have the opposite effect with limited interaction encouraging the growth of ‘fake news’
    - - Dominant ideology impressed upon mass populations to
    - - Fear of locals losing sense of community as the world becomes a ‘global village’
        
        Local issues have global impacts due to new media.
        
        More extreme views. Ohio train incident, right-wing extremists
    - - Churnalism and fake news
      - News select stories that promote profit (Bureaucracy) at the cost of moral panics.
      - Norm setting is the way in which the media emphasises and reinforces conformity to social norms and seek to isolate those who do not conform by making them the victims of unfavourable media reports.
        
        Encourage conformist behaviour- the media speaks favourably of those who abide by the law and advertise perferable behaviour.
        
        Discouraging non-conformist behaviour- sensational and extensive coverage of stories such as murder, benefit fraud.
        
        Consequences are then outlined to show ‘lessons’ to those that do not conform.
  - - - The theory is too vague- there are too many levels of deviancy where th elites of cannabis and padeophilia cannot be compared.
    - - It is open to interpretation- as one story is sensationalised this may not be agreed upon on consensus.
        
        Dependent on the moral concerns of the journalist and the public
    - - Individuals are more worried about problems presented by the media as they are exposed to more views.
    - - The moral panic theory is no longer relevant.
        
        The new media allows for everyone to have a say, so the audience is no longer passive as it was with traditional media. This means that they no longer accept one dominant position.
- - - - This has seen a reduction in methods such as investigative reporting and foreign affairs coverage over the last 10 years.
      - Organisation suffer from the cutting of costs.
        
        BBC- The government froze the TV LIcence Fee in 2010.
      - Newspapers react to falling readership by making journalists redundant.
        
        Undermined the quality of investigative journalism.
        
        Williams
        Investigative journalism is reduced to 'digging up dirt and revealing secrets about the private lives of Royals, MPs, footballers and rock stars'.
        
        This could be unfair as there are sill journalists engaged with the exposure of capitalism, and ruling class ideologies such as The Guardian.
      - Infotainment
        
        Franklin argues that entertainment has superseded the provision of information.
        
        Davies argues that infotainment is attractive to media companies as it attracts large audiences, and thus profit.
        
        This however threatens culture and democracy as it often blurs the distinction between fictional and factual.
  - - - This links to the news value of unambiguity, where stories that are easy to understand due to a lack of complexity and length, are more likely to be implemented prominently.
      - Limits news diversity to certain ideologies, contributing to biased agenda setting (Neo- Marxist)
  - - - The Sun aimed at young, working class readership uses simplistic language, believing this is what the audience wants, also targeting a certain education level.
      - Broadsheets are expansive reading materials, so are aimed at more professional individuals, reflecting their education level, with longer, more complex to understand events.
        
        A lunch-time broadcast is more likely to be viewed by a stay-at-home parent, and so an item relating to a 'supermarket price-war' is better received by this audience, opposed to an evening broadcast bulletin.
- - - - News Values are propaganda for capitalism and a conservative ideology