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:
“Consider his life which was valueless
In terms of employment, hotel ledgers, news files.
Consider. One bullet in ten thousand kills a man.
Ask. Was so much expenditure justified
On the death of one so young and so silly
Lying under the olive tree, O world, O death?”
—Stephen Spender (1909–1995)
“When the shingles hissed
in the rain incendiary,
other values were revealed to us,”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)