News Values
There are a number of criteria for determining the prominence of a news story in media outlets and the attention it is given by the audience. One example is that negative news is given higher value and more prominence than positive news. In modern all-news media, there is the necessity of generating enough news to fill the media 24/7, even when no news-worthy events occur.
Read more about this topic: Media Bias In The United States
Famous quotes containing the words news and/or values:
““... I’ll talk to you, old woman, afterward.
I’ve got some news that maybe isn’t news.
What are they trying to do to me, these two?””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.”
—Norman Podhoretz (b. 1930)