Mr. Gates Goes Electronic: The What and Why Questions in Local TV News

Harmon, Mark D.

doi:10.1177/107769908906600412

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“…The extent to which events occurring in society are covered by the news depends on how congruent those events are with the ''news values'' implicit in how journalists and editors decide what is presented as news (Gatlung & Ruge, 1965). Although there is no formal canon of these news values, various conceptualizations of newsworthiness center around such concepts as timeliness, geographic proximity, cultural proximity, importance, novelty, and conflict (see Abbott & Brassfield, 1989;Berkowitz, 1990;Boyd, 1994;Clayman & Reisner, 1998;Fuller, 1996;Harcup & O'Neill, 2001;Harmon, 1989;Herbert, 2000).…”

Section: Methodology and Criticism Of Existing Researchmentioning

confidence: 98%

Testing the “Proximate Casualties Hypothesis”: Local Troop Loss, Attention to News, and Support for Military Intervention

Hayes

Myers

2009

Mass Communication and Society

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In academic and policy circles, it is believed that the American public is casualties-averse when sending its troops into war and that as casualties mount the public will increasingly call for withdrawal of troops from foreign military interventions. This study tests a variant of this ''casualties hypothesis'' by examining whether the public conceptualizes the human costs of war in local as well as national terms. Using a massive quantity of public opinion data combined with information on deaths to U.S. soldiers in the Iraq war theater between 2003 and 2006, we show that recent deaths to soldiers from a person's home state prompt an increase in the likelihood of the person supporting withdrawal of troops, independent of cumulative national casualties and recent casualties to soldiers from elsewhere in the country. These results are explained in terms of journalism norms that make recent, local casualties salient to consumers of news, who then use this salient information when their opinions about the progress of a war are probed.

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Section: Methodology and Criticism Of Existing Researchmentioning

confidence: 98%

Testing the “Proximate Casualties Hypothesis”: Local Troop Loss, Attention to News, and Support for Military Intervention

Hayes

Myers

2009

Mass Communication and Society

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“…That may explain why critics of journalism have, since the development of the Penny Press, focused on the information function of journalism to argue publicly for the distinction between "proper" reporting and sensational tabloid attempts to inform the public. A number of studies (Adams, 1978;Davie & Lee, 1995;Dominick, Wurtzel, & Lometti, 1975;Harmon, 1989;Hofstetter & Dozier, 1986;Ryu, 1982;Scott and Gobetz, 1992;Slattery, 1994;Wulfemeyer, 1982) have attempted to distinguish between tabloid and standard news content, but have ignored--for the most part--the potential formal differences between these two news genres. The verdict is that proper journalism serves as society's unbiased watchdog by focusing primarily on substantive and timely political and economic issues while tabloid journalists openly favor coverage of scandal, crime, human tragedy, and other disruptions of everyday life.…”

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Packaging Television News: The Effects of Tabloid on Information Processing and Evaluative Responses

Grabe¹,

Zhou²,

Lang³

et al. 2000

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

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This experiment assessed the impact of formal features associated with the packaging of tabloid and standard news on viewer arousal, attention, information recognition, memory, and evaluations of news. The flamboyant tabloid packaging style increased arousal and attention but did not have a significant impact on recognition memory or delayed free recall of information. Moreover, viewers found standard versions to be more believable and informative than the tabloid versions of news stories.

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“…Among these are studies of reporters rather than editors (Whitney and Becker 1982), female gatekeepers (Bleske 1991), photographers (Bissell 2000), gatekeepers from radio stations (Bass 1969), from TV stations (Harmon 1989) and from online news media (Singer 2001;Singer et al 2011). Furthermore, the research field has been concerned with the different processes and criteria used for selection and construction of the final news products.…”

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Gatekeeping in a Digital Era

Bro¹,

Wallberg²

2014

Journalism Practice

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The original concept of gatekeeping within journalism was based on a particular research method, a particular sub-profession within the news media, and a particular-now extincttechnological platform. This article describes and discusses what has happened to the function of gatekeeping as new technologies have developed, and it suggests that three models of gatekeeping are present in the digital era. The first model is based on a process of information, the second model is based on a process of communication, and the third and last model is based on a process of elimination, where the function of gatekeeping is taken over by people outside the newsrooms. All three models have been part of the history of journalism from the very beginning, but their importance for news reporters and the news media have changed with the invention of new technological means, methods and tools. This reassessment of the principles, practices and new technological platforms for gatekeeping concludes by discussing the ways in which our models of journalism can affect not only researchers but also news reporters and audiences.

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Mr. Gates Goes Electronic: The What and Why Questions in Local TV News

Cited by 21 publications

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Testing the “Proximate Casualties Hypothesis”: Local Troop Loss, Attention to News, and Support for Military Intervention

Testing the “Proximate Casualties Hypothesis”: Local Troop Loss, Attention to News, and Support for Military Intervention

Packaging Television News: The Effects of Tabloid on Information Processing and Evaluative Responses

Gatekeeping in a Digital Era

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