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The News: Gates, Agendas and Values
News provides us with documentation that illustrates and illuminates key connections ˇV between public communication and the exercise of power, between freedom and control, between reality and representation.
Ethnocentrism: The News is inevitably slanted (knows rather than unknowns) because a cultureˇ¦s views of the world at large are coloured by a primary interest in its own kind.
Cultural Orientation of news
Two crucial factors in the selection of events to be reported:
1. the Ethnocentric nature of news coverage (that is its culture centredness)
2. ...
News is seen as an exercise of power. ... America
News is a version of reality which is conditioned by the specifics of a situation. News can only tell us what we already know about society.
News as a Ritual
News goes right back to our ancestors, while they watched for danger when dusk fell, the news reports any dangers close to us. ...
News is not in the form of telling us about reality but what is important about reality.
Approximate Word count = 805
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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