ADJUS-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Selection Bias, Regulatory Offence, Sucker Punch

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Administration Of Justice
• Course: ADJUS-120
• Professor: sinsel

Document Summary

What is newsworthy: newsworthiness is linked to the following news values. Prominence: the more prominent an individual or organisation, the more newsworthy it is. Politicians, actors & well-known companies/ businesses: well known victims and offenders are more likely to be reported than unknown victims and offenders. Timeliness: the media tend to report crimes that have occurred recently rather than some time in the past. Present information about crime as isolated events rather than include information about broader social and/or historical contexts. Impact: the media tend to focus on stories which will have a greater impact upon the audience tend to focus on crimes that affect a greater number of people opposed to a small amount of people. Proximity: the media report crimes that: are closer to the audiences area (within the state or territory, the closer the events of the story are to an audience geographically or emotionally the more newsworthy it is.