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Newspapers: News Values

Read  Media Factsheet 76: News Values  and complete the following questions/tasks.  Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets 1) Come up with a news story from the last 12 months for each of the categories suggested by Harriss, Leiter and Johnson: Conflict-   MI5 believed black people posed security risk, papers reveal Full story here Progress- Disaster-  Consequence-  Saudi Arabia to hit back in case of sanctions over Jamal Khashoggi  Full story Prominence  Novelty 2) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage? Britsh woman dies after Afghan bomb blast. As a young British soldier has died elsewhere, because they are British it gains cultural proximity as a British audience would view them as 'one of their own'. Especially as she is a woman, it is considered more newsworthy as

Weekly News- Mail Online

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The Mail Online The Apprentice star Sarah Ann Magson leaves fans outraged after wearing a studded eye-piercing in the boardroom on hit show https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6239233/The-Apprentice-star-Sarah-Ann-Magson-leaves-fans-outraged-wearing-studded-eye-piercing.html I noticed that the headline for this article wasnt really the main focus of it. At the start, they cover tweets made about Sarah Ann's (The Apprentice Contestant) eyebrow piercing. At the start it seems to just be mocking the piercing which seems to be lower than normal. The article shows screenshots of some of the tweets made by people about the piercing. However, the topic swiftly changes and seems to focus on Rick Monk (Another contestant) and his 'sexist' comments as he says 'the girls had no chance of winning' as  'they're gonna be fashion-conscious', "oh my make-up's running", doing their hair. The boys on tour. We're definitely goin