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Introduction
News and reality, a paradox? There are so many different news programs these days, with news from all over the world just jumping in our living rooms. ... When you watched the news during the Iraq war you could see it was a media circus. ...
In this paper I will set up a proposal of how to research construction of reality in TV News and how this is decoded. In my opinion it’s interesting to look both ways, as well the production of the news as also the receiving and interpretation of the news.
First I will note something about how news items are selected. ... I doubted, because I wanted to do the first part of my research, but the news is not really newsworthy in the summer. ...
What’s news?
As Fiske points out, the basic definition of news as factual information that its viewers need in order to be able to participate in their society gives us only half the story . Of course every news bulletin is produced by a company. ... This leads to an interpretation of reality.
News stories are unavoidably handled from particular points of view. ... John Fiske notes that News, of course, can never give a full, accurate objective picture of reality nor should it attempt to, for such an enterprise can only serve to increase its authority and decrease peoples opportunity to "argue" with it, to negotiate with it. In a progressive democracy, news should stress its discursive constructedness, should nominate all its voices. ... By reading the scripted news, the newsreader, dressed with sober formality in an orderly studio, and seated behind a desk (which reduces their body language), appears to speak the objective discourse of "the truth"1.
How do news bulletins construct reality?
How can we analyze the news bulletins itself? ... We become familiar with the codes and conventions of the news. ...
As Hartley puts it: ‘Events dont get into the news simply by happening. ... To win inclusion in any particular news, they must fulfil a certain number of criteria. ...
So it’s obvious that news is selective. ...
- Elite, this is a subject where news seems to concentrate on. ...
- Genre, the news assumes that our society is fragmented in different areas: politics, economy, sport, foreign affairs, domestic news, etc. ...
- Regency, people like to see tv-news as up to minute because the access is instant.
- Potential of long running ‘drama’, but also sudden, unexpected or violent events are wanted in the news. ... So in the news you get a lot of untypical items, mostly negative items. Everyday reality is no news. ... You can set up some criteria4:
- Camerawork
In news programs the newsreaders always directly address to the viewer. ... the news. ... Within the news language there is also a lot of stereotyping.
Approximate Word count = 2277
Approximate Pages = 9.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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