Choose a news story from an online or print newspaper. Write an essay of 400-800 words using the following title:
Which news values apply in the story? Give a range of examples and make specific reference to theory including Galtung and Ruge and narrative ( Levi-Strauss). Consider the role of ideology.
In this essay, i will be applying the concept of news values, news values are criterias or basic guidelines used by the media for things such as newspapers to determine how much prominence to give to a story. The article that i will be using is from The Sun talking about Anthony Joshua's promoter confirming Deontay Wilder unification fight.
The first news values that have been introduced in the article is predictability; as it was an expected announcement as Antony Joshua and Deontay Wilder were bound to eventually fight as they both have outstanding fighting records with no losses. Eddie Hearn (Anthony Joshua’s promoter) confirmed it with no surprise and people knew it was soon to come out and it was expected it. Deontay Wilder has called out AJ many times and he stated at his post-fight previously “i want joshua, no more ducking,hiding and dodging and hiding.Lets make it happen”. The auidnce knew and predicted it was either Tyson Fury or Deontay Wilder next.
In addition, another news value that is used is personalisation, the article didnt just present information about the potential fight of Deontay Wilder and Antony Joshua but also there previous fights and highlights. When Deontay Wilder defeated the former WBC champion Bermane Stiverne and the following saturday Wilder used his post-fighting interview to call out AJ for the second time. There is also personalistion of a picture of AJ TKOing Carlos Takam and a video of Tyson Fury calling out Antony Joshua and says he is ready to fight.This can show us that everyone wants to fight the current International Boxing Organization World Heavyweight Title,WBA Super World Heavyweight Title,IBF World Heavyweight Title.
Furthermore, another news value is compostion, in the news story there is also a strong section where the reporter focus on Deontay Wilder and Bermane Stiverne fight including images. There are images on how Deontay Wilder put Bermane Stiverne in a ‘terrible state’ and ‘the referee had to stop Deontay Wilder to stop hitting Bermane Stiverne’ also ‘Deontay wilder floored Bermane Stiverne three times’. There is a bigger focus on how terrifying Deontay Wilder is than AJ and how making him the biased can be subtle message that they think that Deontay wilder can beat AJ. This can be backed up with another story from the sun where they say if AJ doesn’t lose some of his muscle that will cost him the fight and he will be in a vunerable position against the man himself Deontay Wilder.
Finally, the last news value used is threshold, only a minority of the people read sports based stories especially boxing. Anthony Joshua being a upcoming and rising star and Deontay Wilder a experienced ‘beast, in a smashing right record of 39 wins with 38 TKOs and no loses. They both have not lost a single game, making it worthy to report. If it was two boxers which was not well known people would not really have an interest towards them.
In conclusion, in this story from the sun they have applied many concepts of news values including; threshold, compostition, personalisation and predictabiliy. All these news values have bee included to make a interesting and exciting news story for the audience and not a standard story with a lot of information.
You understand news values and mainly apply them correctly in this essay. Composition is a little confused- check this. You have a clear, logical structure. You could have done closer analysis of the images and thought about applying other theories such as Levi-Strauss. C (Vanessa)
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