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 am going to talk about how different types of news values are used in a newspaper article. The news values that I am going to define are: threshold, proximity, negativity and composition. The news article that I am going to use is from the Daily Mail website; where a prisoner is charged with murder after baby killer who punched and shook his two day old baby daughter to death is found dead in his cell.
The first value that was applied is Threshold; this value is applied because of the way the front page of the online newspaper was put on, they have clearly stated how old the man and the baby is as well putting the man's picture. This is eye catching because it will persuade the readers to read on the news and find out what happened to the baby, because they wrote "A prisoner is charged with murder after baby killer who punched and shook his two day old baby daughter to death is found dead in his cell."
this is the headline which briefly says the story in one sentence. the newspaper writer than writes the whole story with full details at the bottom of the page explaining how it occurred.
Secondly the other value used is Proximity which is to do how close the story is to home, this means that the story on the news is given more importance because of it being "more close to home" in other words because the story is in the UK is being noticed more whereas the stories in Burma where kids are being shot to death and raped in front of their parents is not important because it is outside the UK.
The third news value I have identified in the newspaper article is Negativity, being negative about stories and incidents and other various things in the news is very common. Bold headings giving a brief understanding of the story is very common in newspapers. This story is quite long and it has a lot of processes on how the murder occurred and while reading the story you can tell the way this story has been written is very sad and negative because there isn't anywhere on the story with anything happy that happened.
Finally the last value used is Composition, newspapers need to balanced which mean they need to have a bit of everything such as: government and politics, murders and local area news, celebrities, sports and many others. In this case the newspaper writer decided to put in the murder story as the front cover to make it dramatic and eye catching which means people will buy the newspaper and read on to find out what has happened and they want to find out the whole story.
