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Big Brother dominates MediaGuardian's top twenty stories of 2007

It was, of course, a media news year dominated by Celebrity Big Brother. We reveal the most popular 20 stories of 2007 on MediaGuardian.co.uk:

1 Why does everyone hate me?
Thousands of viewers complained about the racist bullying of Shilpa Shetty on Big Brother, but Germaine Greer thought we shouldn't be surprised because it represented the widespread bigotry of British society.
17 January 2007

2 Girl, 14, appeared topless in FHM
FHM was censured by the Press Complaints Commission after it published a topless photo of a 14-year-old girl without her consent.
11 September 2007

3 Jade evicted as poll reveals public anger with Channel 4
Jade Goody was evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house after 82% of viewers voted against her, and Goody admitted she was "embarrassed and disgusted" by her own behaviour.
20 January 2007

4 Big Brother racism complaints soar
The number of complaints about alleged racist abuse on Celebrity Big Brother grew to 4,500.
16 January 2007

5 Newsreader's anger over Paris story
The release of Paris Hilton from a Los Angeles jail made headline news, but one US cable news presenter refused to read out the story as a lead item on a popular morning breakfast show.
29 June 2007

6 Reuters gets that sinking feeling over Titanic stills
News agency Reuters admitted that footage it had aired purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic.
10 August 2007

7 New race row hits Big Brother
Big Brother contestant Emily Parr was removed from the show after calling fellow housemate Charley Uchea a racially offensive name.
7 June 2007

8 With prejudice
Unofficial sources and the demands of 24-hour news have led to a media storm around Gerry and Kate McCann.
17 September 2007

9 Guardian columnist Dina Rabinovitch dies
Dina Rabinovitch, the Guardian columnist, lost her long-running battle with cancer.
30 October 2007

10 Duncan's darkest hour
The political and social storm over Big Brother exposed a crisis of leadership at Channel 4.
22 January 2007

11 Guardian Viral Video Chart
Two reluctant puppies dressed in Halloween Star Wars outfits stole the Viral Video Chart show.
2 November 2007

12 Racism, ratings and reality TV: now Big Brother creates a diplomatic incident
Complaints over Channel 4 show hit record 22,000, while police say they are to investigate abuse of Bollywood film star.
18 January 2007

13 Celebrity Big Brother row goes global
The row over the alleged racist bullying of Celebrity Big Brother star Shilpa Shetty reached the world of international diplomatic relations.
17 January 2007

14 Shilpa complains of racism
Celebrity Big Brother contestant Shilpa Shetty accused fellow housemates of racism as complaints about the programme topped 30,000.
18 January 2007

15 Jim Davidson's Hell's Kitchen exit
Jim Davidson was kicked out of Hell's Kitchen for referring to "shirtlifters".
12 September 2007

16 Apple to launch new iPod
Apple gears up to announce the sixth generation of iPods, prompting fervent speculation about how the technology giant will develop its market-leading MP3 player.
4 September 2007

17 Media Diary
Monkey's most popular diary of the year noted how emails to Telegraph.co.uk's bloggers always seemed to get leaked to MediaGuardian, and revealed that Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow would be appearing in a promo wearing just a loin cloth.
2 March 2007

18 TV contestants to compete for woman's kidney
A Dutch reality television show pushes the boundaries of reality TV in a show where a terminally ill woman selects one of three contestants to receive her kidneys when she dies.
29 May 2007

19 Celebrity Big Brother Live: Shilpa v Jade
Janine Gibson covers Big Brother eviction night live on Organ Grinder after the racism controversy.
19 January 2007

20 Watch the Guinness 'Tipping Point' TV ad
Guinness launches the most expensive TV ad in its 80-year marketing history with a domino rally that features cars, flaming hay bales and grandfather clocks.
8 November 2007

9/20 stories were related to big brother,showing that unimportant soft news dominated the media stories, something like the Mccann's only featured once but BIG BROTHER, has so much coverage probably because of the racial abuse on the show.these things have to be considered. i chose this story because not only is big brother important in the media news, but in the news and in TV in general, big brother is constantly heavily advertised and sponsered, and is international! ! ! !

BIG BROTHER IS...BIG ! ! !

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Kidman wins damages from Telegraph

The actress Nicole Kidman is to receive "substantial" damages from the Daily Telegraph after the newspaper claimed that she preferred another perfume to Chanel No 5, the fragrance she is paid to promote.

The Daily Telegraph's Spy column alleged last month that while in London to promote her new film, The Golden Compass, Kidman had upset Chanel by attending press commitments with a bottle of Jo Malone perfume. The piece also suggested she had claimed Jo Malone's White Jasmine and Mint was her favourite perfume and falsely alleged that despite having signed a multimillion pound contract with Chanel, the actress was openly promoting a competitor's product.

The newspaper has apologised and agreed to pay the Australian star's legal costs as well as undisclosed damages.The 40-year-old Oscar winner was not at the high court in London for the settlement. Her solicitor, John Kelly, said she had suffered considerable embarrassment and distress over the story.

Kelly said the story meant that Kidman had acted in an unprofessional and disloyal manner by brazenly snubbing Chanel, had flouted the terms of her contract and had proved she could not be trusted to honour it.
He said Telegraph Media Group Ltd now accepted the allegations were untrue and, indeed, had established that the source of the article had invented the story.

David Price, representing the Daily Telegraph, said the paper "accepts the allegations are untrue and ought never to have been published". Kidman is intending to donate the damages to the UN Development Fund for Women.

The telegraph has literally been sued by nicole kidman by accusing her of promoting a jo malone prefume even thoguh chanel have signed an endorsement contract with her. Even though the sum was disclosed, the word substantial states, alot. as newspapers don't have rules and regulations like TV programmes and news programmes, they can write what they pleae as an opinion and not state it as a fact.because of this the daily telegraph has incurred a major loss, and huge controversy.the dailt telegraph has made the news!!

mr bush homework on news values

I watched both of my news programmes on the same day and tried to get the ones that were closest (time-wise)
The BBC news at 5.50pm on Saturday
The Channel 4 news at 6.35pm on Saturday

The BBC news
top five stories
1.the gas commision story-trying to reduce greenhouse gases (conference in bali) about a contract to be signed in 2009, america was hestitating to take part in the 2 year programme
2.banks loan= debts- People of britian are incurring huge debts because of high interest loans from banks.
3.Pervez musharraf and benezir bhutto
4.humpback whale found dead
5.local support for a footballer-who has been found to be an illegal immigrant and the governement wants to send him back.
GALTUNG AND RUGE
Frequency-->the BBC news lasted 10 minutes and then went to the local news.the gas commision was the first story shown and lasted 5 minutes, half of the time of the full news.the rest of it was preoccupied by the other 4 stories plus a short story about a girl born with four arms and four legs in bangalore just had surgery to remove the extra arms and legs.
Threshold-->the greenhouse gas story is so large it affects everyone world wide therefore is big enough to appear on the news, all the stories affect large amounts of people expet for the last one about the little girl with 4 arms/legs.
meaningfulness-->All stories exept the pervez musharraf and the little girls story all affect the people in the u.k the bankloan debt story and the footballer headlines directly take place int he U.K
Unexpectedness--> the little girls story and the humpback whale story fulfil the unexpectedness meaning of the news.
Continuity-->Although there is no continuity the greenhouse gases story will be continously covered
Composition-->hard and soft news included.hard news included the greenhouse gases story and pervez musharraf story alongside the bank story and possibly the footballer story.
Reference to Elite nations--> the greenhouse story particularly focused on U.S reaction of the plan to cut down on these gases. the story in bangalore about the young girl may have been covered because this potentially would attract many asians to listen tot it.the pervez musharraf story was possibly chosen because of the large amount of pakistani's whithin the U.K.
Reference to Elite persons-->gordon brown and pervez musharraf
Negativity-->bank loans, whale story, whatever has importance is news, whether good or bad.

The channel 4 news
Top five stories
1.gas commision's story
2.Southern Iraq-->british soldiers leaving after 3 and a half years, what will be the outcome of their departure.
3.pervez musharraf story
4.embryo screening for diseases
5.italian/spanish coach-->interview about how he feels to be soon coaching the england team
GALTUNG AND RUGE
Frequency--> the programmes lasted until 7.15pm, most of this time covered the greenhouse gases story again, like BBC news
Threshold-->the greenhouse gas story is so large it affects everyone world wide therefore is big enough to appear on the news, all the stories affect large amounts of people .The southern Iraq story also affect other nations and countries
Meaningfulness--> 3 stories affect the U.K directly.
Composition--> all stories exept the football coach one can be considered as hard news
Reference to elite nations--> U.S.A , Iraq, Pakistan
Reference to elite persons-->Pervez musharraf

analysis of asians in a media text

teen bahuraniyan (literal translation means 3 daughter in laws)
Ok lukin thru other ppls blogs i fink i did da hmework rong LOL.....i actually lukd at an asian text LOOOOOL whoopsi daisies
well any way im gna post up wteva i did so atleast i show i did da work LOl :D




this is a literally a soap opera like eastenders would be, a continous everyday 30 mintues episode is shown monday to friday on renowned indian tv prgoramme...zee tv LOL
there are many characters within the programme, it conveys a large family which consists of grandparents and grandchildren.they all live together which re-inforces stereotypes of asians.there are the 3 typical daughter-in-laws/housewives, again reinforcing the stereotpes we may have of asian women.all three are shown as medelling gossiping and selfish women.these women are in their mid to late 40's and have fully grown and married children, yet these women are not shown ina respected light.the fact that the men are portrayed as the innocent and naiive ones is quite extraordinary.however all three of the daughterin laws are traditionally dresses, and consider their personal immediate family values.they all hate living with each other and this story line is quite predicatble in amny indian programmes.
The three younger daughter-in-laws/(still)hosuewives, are all just recently married stating them in the early to mid 20's.this programme portrays this story in the present, how ever all three of these women are stills hown in housewife roles, cooking, cleaning etc.whilst the men go out and work...in the ''0ffice''.it is never clearly state dwhat the job is ...but if the males are working it must be important therefore directors may believe there is no need to state the job role.
these daughter-in-laws are all also traditionally dressed, whereas other minor female roles (which are predominantly preoccuppied with a villanious role) are shown dressed more modern and sometimes provocitavely. they are more western and much more lost with their traditional cultural values, therefore they suit the villaious roles well, as the villains are shown to be more contemporary..the audience must be seen passive and feeds this ideology that if a young girl does not follow her traditional values she will become a villian....(LOOOOL)
all the men in this household are shown lost without the guidance of their women.
the older individuals which consist of the FATHER and MOTHER of the HOUSE and the GRANDMOTHER of the house...are all 60+.they are shown as respected individuals and they have authority over the family.all orders that are brought down must be followed.
these programmes continously re-inforce the stereotypes of asians being extremely strict and completely traditional.

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Heroes finishes with a flourish

The series finale of US drama Heroes attracted 3.3 million viewers to BBC2 last night, Wednesday December 5.

Yesterday's 23rd and final instalment of the sci-fi series attracted 15% of the audience between 9.40pm and 10.25pm, according to unofficial overnight ratings.

The Heroes finale was up 600,000 and three share points on the 2.7 million and 12% that tuned in to the penultimate episode, which was shown at 9pm last night.

Over on BBC1, the final part of The Nature of Britain, fronted by Alan Titchmarsh, attracted 4.4 million viewers and a 19% share between 9pm and 10pm; while the network's 10pm news that followed picked up 5.2 million and a 25% share.

Channel 4's The Secret Millionaire attracted 3.3 million and a 14% share over an hour from 9pm.
ITV1 showed the terrestrial premiere of the film The 40 Year Old Virgin, which picked up an average of 3.3 million viewers and a 15% share between 9pm and 10.30pm.
Ratings for ITV1 were healthier earlier in the night when the soaps did good business.

Emmerdale at 7pm picked up 8 million viewers and a 38% share, while Coronation Street was watched by 9.9 million and a 44% share half an hour later.
The Bill had 5.4 million viewers and 24% between 8pm and 9pm.

In the same hour, BBC1 picked up 3.8 million viewers and a 17% share for Watchdog, followed by 4 million and 17% for Cars, Cops and Bailiffs.
The third part of Ben's Zoo on BBC2 pulled in 2.3 million and a 10% share in the 8pm hour, while Channel 4's How to Look Good Naked attracted 2.9 million and 12% in the same slot.
Channel Five's Diet Doctors: Inside & Out picked up 700,000 viewers and a 3% share in the 8pm hour.
From 10pm, Channel 4's My Big Fat Moonie Wedding, a documentary about a mass wedding of more than 4,000 people in 1982, had an audience of 1.2 million, a 7% share over its run to 11.05pm.

This story shows the ratings received for all standard broadcast channels, bbc1 bbc2 itv3 channel4 and channel5.between 8pm and 10.30pm the BBC channels received the highest ratings, whether people were watching heroes or the nature of britain.heores received 600,000 more viewers for the finale than they did for the 9pm episode showing either viewers just turned on the tv for that or they actually switched from other channels in order to watch it. this shows that the BBC had a wide audience that they appeal to whether its to educate, inform or entertain. i personally chose this story because i was one of the 3.3 million people who watched heroes, and i would choose to watch it over all of the other programmes that were on at the same time.

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