News and Treatment value news 2

This story is about allegations of Princess Diana being killed by the SAS. It was published on the 17th December 2013 by the Daily Mail. This story is hard news due to the amount of news and treatment values.

News Values

Familiarity - The home nation (Great Britain) will understand this story because Princess Diana was a very popular and important woman. As she was the wife of the future King of Britain, she was closely followed by journalists because she was news worthy. Anything she did was important to the country.

Amplitude - The story is large because she was married to the future King of Britain and at the time she was the most famous woman in the country and newspapers wanted to follow her every step all the time.

Pretictable - Every now and then there are always new claims of how Princess Diana died. This is because most people will read about it and they are running out of stories.

Continuity - This story has been around since Princess Diana died, in 1997, newspapers always keep on reminding people of the story and always have many different reason as to how and why she died.

Elite nations and elite people - Princess Diana was married to the future King of Britain and was one of the most important people in the country at the time.

Conflict - There is conflict between the SAS and people who have claimed them of killing her.

Negativity - This is bad news because it reminds people of Princess Diana's death.

Treatment Values

Visuals - There is a picture of Princess Diana to interest the reader and to remind viewers what she looked like again.

Drama - There is now an argument between the viewers to whether the SAS did kill Princess Diana or not.

Saga - The story leads on from 1997 when Princess Diana actually died.

Conflict - This story has been around since Princess Diana died, in 1997, newspapers always keep on reminding people of the story and always have many different reason as to how and why she died.

Human Interest - The viewers are always interested in how Princess Diana really died and will read into the story.

News and treatment values news 1

 

This story is about the death of Nelson Mandela and all the global leaders visiting South Africe for his memorial. This was publised on the 10th of December 2013 by the Daily Mail. This story is hard news due to the amount of news values and treatment values.

News Values

Familiarity - The story is understandable to the audience as most will know who Nelson Mandela was and would feel the same feeling as he was very popular in the UK and the whole world.

Amplitude - The story is huge because it is about the death of a man who changed the lives of millions and who was the former President of South Africa.

Predictable - Nelson Mandela was very ill and old so it was no surprise that he died.

Surprise - Even though Mandela was very ill and old, people would not of expected that he would die that day.

Continuity - Mandela's death was before this story so this has continued and is involving other world leaders, like Barack Obama, into the story. It has also continued from Mandela being ill.

Elite nations and elite people - Nelson Mandela was the former President of South Africa and freed millions of black men, woman and children.

Negativity - It is sad because Mandela has died.

Treatment Values

Visual - The story has a picture of Barack Obama and his wife with Nelson Mandela's wife as if two countries are uniting to draw the reader.

Drama - As a former President who was admired by millions there was a bit of drama. Also we want to know how South Africa and the world are going to cope without such an important person not being here anymore.

Saga - This story has followed on from Mandela's death so it is on going.

 

News and Treatment Values

News and Treatment Values

News Value

News value are 12 reasons why some pieces of news is worthy to be in the newspapers, TV or radio. It was created by Galtung and Ruge. Here are a couple of them:

1) Immediacy - News that has happend in the last couple of days or even on the same day.

2) Familiarity - A story that many people will understand immediatly teflecting it's culture, calender, customs and habits.

Treatment Value

Treatment values refer to what is valued about the 'treatment' of the message. I t was created by Burton and there are 6 of them, here are a couple of them:

1) Visuals - Stories that offer interesting visual images.

2) Drama - Stories that lend themselves to dramalisation