COMM 1011 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14 and 16: Civic Journalism, Migration Period, Pastoralism
31 Mar 2016
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The process of gathering information and making narrative reports- edited by individuals in a news organization that create selected frames of reference and help the public make sense of prominent people, important events, and unusual happenings in everyday life. Newsworthiness the often understated criteria that journalists use to determine which events and issues should become news reports, including timeliness, proximity, conflict, prominence, human interest, consequence, usefulness, novelty, and deviance. Ethnocentrism an underlying value held by many u. s. journalists and citizens, it involves judging other countries and cultures according to how they live up to or imitate american practices and ideals. An underlying value held by many u. s. journalists and citizens, it assumes that businesspeople should compete with one another not primarily to maximize profits but to increase prosperity for all. An underlying value held by many u. s. journalists and citizens, it favors the small over the large and the rural over the urban.
