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
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