Introduction to the News

Broadcast 

BBC News 24, 10am, 23rd March 2016

Victoria Derbyshire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10318089

Stories Covered

• Brussels attacks (general overview) - this is mostly likely to be shown first out of anything.
• Interview with Brussels residents and victims
• British man David Dixon missing in Brussels
• Brussels bombers apartment discovered with 
• nail bomb and Isis flag inside
• Sports headlines 
• Brussels suspects named

The story was about the terroist attacks which had occured at brussels where 32 people and pepetrators had been killed, the story involved the helpless victims of brussels airport commuters A total of five attackers were involved, with three of them dying in suicide bombings,their are two people represented in this story the victims and terroists, the victims were shown to be helpless, mortified and unsafe. The terroists were obviously demonised by the media because they were commiting attacks on innocent people. I feel that as the way story was told the representation of everyone in the story was correct.There was narrative towards what was going on screen of the aftermath of the acts the news reader specifically was talkjing about waht was happening when people were fleeing danger. It helps the audience at home because we are fully understanding what is happening on screen sometimes we may not know what is specifically happening it may not totally be in context.

Starting Sequence, Visuals and Audio

• Starting Sequence: Starts with use of theme song, it makes a beeping sound which gives the audience a sense of urgency like the breaking news stories need to be heard now and quickly, shows a photo of the a red representation of earth and the banner BBC News covering it, that is used to make the viewer know they are covering what is going in the world, a fair use of imagery.
•  Visuals: the use of footage in the broadcast was mostly footage that journalists and people who had been present during the attacks at Brussels, that is used in the broadcast so the point of view from the the people who were actually their is shown, this gives the viewer a higher sense of reality of this event that had occurred 

News presenters

• Victoria Derbyshire, Age: 47, Gender: female and Employer: BBC
• The role of the newsreader is to take the information from the stories given to them and regurgitate it and present it to the audience in a way that is true to the story and will give the audience the right representation of what is actually going on in these specific stories.
• A news reader in order to perform in their job role have to have specific skills these are; A wide vocabulary, Confidence, Professionalism, Good communication skills and well educated of he industry and the world.

How News stories are put in order for broadcast (deemed by news values)

1. First stories are always the biggest story coming from that day (e.g  A terrorist attack that day will be first in the running in order because it's more important for the public to know than other light hearted or local stories)
2.  The second story will be a story from later in the week or last week which has probably had more development into the story (e.g; A plane went missing last week if the story developed and something such as a location of the plane may have been found then the news would report this) 
3. After these two types of stories have been as the stories progress they get older and 'less important' (for example sports stories, local stories, weather report, etc) 
4. Lastly the Broadcast ends with a more light hearted story to balance the emotion for the viewers. (this is called the and finally story)

What are news values?

there are are set of rules in place which justify the stories that will go on the news and what order they will go in these are;

Bias in the news 

• Bias through selection and omission:   This is when the editor decides to leave out some of the details within a story for the sake of seeing the one side of the story that may not been of heard before. this type of bias can only really be found if we look over various news reports showing different parts of this certain story, for example; A story could cover the England game talking on how well the fan reception was from the England fans but the story would focus mainly on how the opposition fans were 'booing' them.
• Bias through Placement: Bias through placement is where a specific story is placed on the front of the cover or the first page to indicate the importance of the story, newspapers and News radio and television broadcasts bias there stories to see which will appeal to their general audience (what will appeal at the front and what they will find less interesting at the back) and boost their buyers, ratings and viewers. This has happened recently in the news with the talk of Wanye Rooney spending a 120k trip on his super yacht just days after England had been acclimated from the euros, this story was picked over multiple stories about the election of the new Prime Minster and issues to do with Britain leaving the EU. They have done this because they're target audience would probably prefer to read about this than politics. 
• Bias through headlines: Headlines can be bias because they are sometimes misleading when not read properly, they sometimes mislead the reader or viewer because the headlines are bold
  
  
  and in large writing to make the reader think the story will be exciting to read or view when they are not interesting what so ever. For example Fox news used the headline "Obama has a big problem with white women" as a headline this was not the case it was a story published by fox news trying to establish viewers, this can also be known as something called 'click bait' this term is not so much used on news on television and newspaper but online, various news outlet pages such as; Ladbible, Buzzfeed, The Sun Online, Etc use this form of news bias to bring in readers so they can therefore increase money or promote advertisement.
• Bias through photos: Photos which have been taken with different captions and camera angles can show a representation of a person differently it can make them look cool, bad,sick, stupid, repulsive or even more attractive. these type of photos which are shown in various forms of news outlets give the public a diffrent perception of that through photos. for example ed millband was pictured whilist eating a bacon sandwich this caused this photos was obviously not a good representation of the leader because the photo indicates that he looks stupid or repulsive more than he would in a regular photo of him. 
• Bias through Names and Captions: Most news outlets like to give people, places and events titles and labels so they can establish a character to a person in a news story, for example a footballer can be labeled as a 'national hero' for performing well in a competition when he has actually not provided any sense of heroic acts for his country.
• Bias by choice of words: this form of bias in news outlets suggests that the reader can be influence by certain words used by writer. this works by the use of positive and negative words used in a text or broadcast. For example a article published by the daily star named England's rugby team going out of the 4 nations against Australia as "The End of the world"