Monday, 5 January 2015

talkSPORT News Bulletin at 10 PM:

Full verbatim of the news bulletin:

1: Rescue teams have suspended there search for 8 missing crew who were on ship which sank off the northern coast of Scotland. The up turned hull of the Cypriote registered cargo boat was spotted in the north sea yesterday. Now 50,000 ton car transporter remains stranded on the southern bank outside Southampton. Engineers are assessing how to move the ship after high water failed to get it to float on The Solent it ran aground last night prompting a major rescue operation to get the crew off the listing vessel.

News Values to do with story 1^: 

Immediacy: The story is breaking news and happened recently.
Familiarity: The story is close to the reader because Scotland is part of the UK and talkSPORT is a national radio station.
Predictability: The reader expected rescue teams to have suspended their search for the 8 missing crew as it is most likely the few people missing are dead.
Personalisation: It is a human interest story as 8 men are most likely dead due to the ship which sank.
Negativity: It is bad news.
Scandal: The story may provoke moral outrage from parts of the audeince due to the lack of concern from rescue teams to stop the search.

2: A woman's being arrested on suspicion of murder after two men were found dead in a house fire in North London. The men one in his 50's, the other thought to be in his 40's was discovered in a house in Islington on Friday. Police says they are holding a 42 year old woman.

News Values to do with story 2^:

Familiarity: The story is geographically close to the audience in North London although this story is not to the UK.
Frequency: The event where an adult gets arrested on suspicion of murder does happen often but it's rare for the sex of the adult to be a woman.
Surprise: This is an unusual and unexpected event.
Conflict: The story contains drama between the woman who is on suspicion for murdering two men.
Negativity: This is bad news.

3: and a gunman has snatched a 3 week old baby after shooting her mother, father and uncle at their home in California. All 3 were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds and are in critical but stable condition. Police are looking for Eliza Delacruz who weighs 10 pounds and has been missing since Saturday evening.

News Values to do with story 3^:

Immediacy: This story has happened recently as the event happened the night before it was reported as well as the story is breaking news as a baby has been missing.
Surprise: It is an unexpected event for a 3 week old baby to be missing.
Continuity: This story would of been defined as news the day the event occured therefore it is part of an ongoing story.
Conflict: The story contains conflict between the murderer and the people who were shot and kidnapped.
Personalisation: This is a human interest story as the fact the missing person is a 3 week old baby makes the story more sympathetic to adults who have children of their own.
Negativity: This is bad news as 3 people have been shot and are in "critical" condition and a baby is missing.

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