LAWS 3903 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: News Values, Social Order, Feedback
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4 essay questions will be given and you chose 2. Lipschultz and hilt (2002: marketing, news values, social order over disorder, organizational factors. The appeal of crime news: local news tends to rely on routine sources, including government officials and law enforcement personnel, competitive and corporate interests appear oto homogenize the news rather than diversity. If it bleeds it leads: affective or emotional news reporting, little to no context, ritualistic validation of myths. Victims as sources: dependent on demographic characteristics, sources of visualization, knowledge provisions by victims, primary- similar to police, descriptive- information not usually offered by police. Past research on fear of crime and the media. Richard quinney- the social reality of crime: overemphasis on violent crime, creation of crime waves, use of crime waves, use of crime news as filler, misleading reporting on crime statistics, police control of crime news. Gunter"s three forms of perceptions: magic window: a viewer believes tv content are an un-altered, and actual reality.
