Tuesday, 10 November 2020

 gatekeeping 

a term which is applied to the editing and filterig process where decisins are made to let some information "pass through"

news values 

continuity - stories that are already in the news continue to run and are updated 

proximity- stories that are closer to home are more likely t be included

personalization- stories that include human interest- real people 

unambiguous-stories that are easy to understand  and for papers to report on 

Elite persons- stories about important people and powerful nations 

negativity - bad news is more interesting if it bleeds it leads 

unexpectedness- an event that is a shock or out of the ordinary 


minecraft revision

 why would Microsoft be keen to purchase Minecraft? they could see that there was allot of interest early on and that it would be a good opp...