LAWS 3903 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: News Values, Social Order, Task Management
20 Dec 2017
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People need to respond quickly in the world to keep up with the business of today. Characteristics of crime stories: personalized through perpetrators and victims (bad seed, dramatic, conflict-filled, controversial and violence, actual concrete, novel or deviant, linked to issues of ongoing concern to the media. Lipschultz and hits (2002: marketing, news values, social order over disorder, organizational factors. Competitive and corporate interest appear to homogenize the news rather than diversify it: public develops a hunger for this type of news (addicted to it) Ritualistic validation of myths: it constructs myths and vary and it is the idea that crime has a "good guy" and a "bad guy" and that punishments are justified. When we recognize trauma in other people it is not that immediate thing that we understand and we need to learn to understand it. Past research on dear of crime and the media.
