News Media Processes
- Create a ranked a list of news stories (listed below) according to their newsworthiness. Put the mostnewsworthy story in the number 1 slot. Put the leastnewsworthy story in the number 9 slot.
- Explain and provide a formal, academic rationalization/justification for the ranking of the top three stories. Base and/or ground your argument in “news values” discourses (see Galtung & Ruge, 1965; Gans, 1979; McGregor, 2002; Barun, 2009).
News stories requiring ranking
Use these stories in your ranked list. Each of the stories below has featured on the front page of the New Zealand Herald.
Has pop Queen Bey shamed her cheating husband? …or is it all a cynical money-making stunt
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11629544
Watch: Auckland motorway crashes cause traffic chaos http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11629440
Rest in peace Gazza: Star police dog shot and killed in police incident
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11627123
Prince George stays up late to meet President Barack Obama and wife Michelle
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11627537
Armed stand-off in Porirua: Gunman found dead
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11627489
Watch NZH Focus: Kiwi athletes mark 100 days until Rio
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11629472
The Primary Issue: Have kids got the skills they need to start school?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11632287
Channel 4 rebrand in new reality TV tie-up
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11632383
Floods shut down Wellington, one dead
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11448435
SAMPLE SOLUTION
- Ranked list of news stories according to their newsworthiness, in a descending order.
- Rest in peace Gazza: Star police dog shot and killed in police incident http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11627123
- Armed stand-off in Porirua: Gunman found dead http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11627489
- Prince George stays up late to meet President Barack Obama and wife Michelle
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11627537
- Has pop Queen Bey shamed her cheating husband? …or is it all a cynical money-making stunt http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11629544
- Channel 4 rebrand in new reality TV tie-up http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11632383
- The Primary Issue: Have kids got the skills they need to start school?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11632287
- Floods shut down Wellington, one dead http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11448435
- Watch: Auckland motorway crashes cause traffic chaos http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11629440
- Watch NZH Focus: Kiwi athletes mark 100 days until Rio
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11629472
- A formal, academic rationalization/justification for the ranking of the top three stories on the grounds of “news values” discourses.
The news Rest in peace Gazza: Star police dog shot and killed in police incident satisfies several theories posited by scholars of news values. The event conveniently qualifies in impact, audience identification, and is well within the boundaries of realistic media coverage (Galtung & Ruge, 1965). The fact that the star police dog died, was bound to elicit emotions and reactions from the public. Police dogs are often identified with their handlers, as partners. The death of a police dog is often equated to the death of a police officer, and the impact of such an event in a culture where law and order takes prominence, is enormous.
The event identifies with the people of New Zealand and hence, it satisfies the familiarity
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