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Selection and presentation of the news
Selection and presentation of the news
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A2 Sociology - Media
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Pluralists argue that journalists are
Disinterested and objective
Bias
Agents of the ISA
Propagators of Bad News
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How could one evaluate Marxist accounts of the media
The media places flowers on the P’s chains of oppression
The media is the opium of the people
Digital media is now democratised
The media is the sigh of the oppressed
3
Bagdikian illustrates this point by stating that newspapers have lots of ? News but little about ?
Business / Poverty
Business / Travel
Ethics / Philosophy
Consumerism / ethics
4
Primary definers are seen as more important / credible than ...
Secondary issues
Pressure groups / Trade unionists / ordinary people
The first person to write a dictionary
Politicians / Footballers
5
According to Hall Politicians, Police, Civil servants and business leaders are egs of :
The educated
The elite
Primary defines
The ISA
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Being a Gatekeeper involves
Making choices about who to employ
Making choices and judgements about what events are important.
Making policy decisions about the ethics of journalism.
Making judgements about the GUMG
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Which researchers stated that the BBC was Bias and propagated hegemony?
GUMG
GMUG
GCGM
GNUG
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Davies 2008 found that ? Percentage of stories were generated by journalists?
12%
38%
20%
19%
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Thomas. 2008. Argues that NEWS VALUES determine ...
Picture used in a story
Word count of a story
Bias in a story.
Newsworthiness of a story
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Name a left wing newspaper
Mail
Times
Mirror
Sun
11
McQuial 1992 argues that Editors, Journalists and Owners are all
Political
Locksmiths
Housekeepers
Gatekeepers
12
Which of the following according to Gultung and Ruge 1965 are not used to define newsworthy...
Personalisation
Reference to elite football teams
Reference to elite nations
Reference to elite persons
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Newspapers in the UK are mainly
New Right of centre.
Left of centre
Centre
Right of centre
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Which SOT is critical of the way the Media Selects and Presents the News?
Consensus structuralist
Conflict Structuralists
PM
Functionalists
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Davies 2008 found ? Percentage of news stories in 2 newspapers were characterised by churnalism?
54%
80%
61%
12%
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Schlesinger 1990 argues that the media does not
Always act in the interests of the powerful
Cover celebrity
Support the ISA
Convey hegemony
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Which of the following is not an example of organisation / bureaucratic constraints relating to manufacture of the news:
Zeitgeist
Time
Audiences
Financial
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Davies proposed in 2008 that Churnalism is
Playing too much drill music leads to crime
journalists relying on ‘facts’ churned out by spin doctors + PR People
Too much news dedicated to production of butter
The Labour Party attempting to influence the news.
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How has the way in which people receive their news changed in the last 20 years?
People read more newspapers
There is more fake news
People rely on social influencers.
Less traditional more digital
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Bagdikian 2004 argues that almost all media owners in the US are part of a wider
Club
Conspiracy
Power elite
Monopoly
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Who in 1988 argued that the media propagate campaigns to help elite interests?
Marx
Althusser
Marcuse?
Chomsky
22
Edwards and Cromwell 2006 state that the US are portrayed as ‘champions of democracy.’ A recent example that shows this:
US impeachment of Trump
US trade wars with China.
US assassination of Qasem Soleimani
US denouncing Green Grimes
23
McQuail
(1992) argues that ‘news’ is not
Nice
Accurate
Ethnocentric
objective or impartial.
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Which of the following according to Gultung and Ruge 1965 are not used to define newsworthy...
Extraordinariness
Unambiguity
Threshold
Ambiguity
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Therefore... the news production in the US is politically...
Liberal
Conservative
conservative
Dedicated to conspicuous consumption
