News Values

 

1. Negativity	‘Hard’ News - bad news will almost always be prioritised.
2. Proximity	Things that happen close to home (domestic news) or that involve people from a local area.
3. Recency	“Breaking News’
4. Currency	The ‘value’ of a story. If it is useful for people.
5. Continuity	Stories that are likely to continue for a long time.
6. Simplicity	The easier the story is to understand, the better.
7. Personality	Often ‘soft’ news surrounds personalities in whom the public has an interest eg. Royal family, celebrities, athletes
8. Uniqueness	If a story is unusual or surprising
9. Expectedness	Includes diary events - things that happen at a particular time of the year.
10. Elite nations/people	Western societies such as European countries and the USA will tend to dominate the news.
11. Exclusivity	When a news channel has footage or information that is not yet in possession of others.
12. Threshold	How many people are impacted on by an event.

The news that I chose is Spitting image has been cancel by ITV, despite national need for political satire, says star. 

Based on the news that I read, it can be categorised into:

1. Expectedness = A new comedy using deep fake techniques to create hilarious celebrity set-ups, after a 24-year absence, as the flagship commission for BritBox, the new UK subscription streaming rival to Netflix and Disney.

2. Uniqueness = Create hilarious celebrity set-ups,

3. Negativity =  forced to rewrite his current West End stand-up show and retitle it Goodbye Liz, said he fears for the future of satire on British TV.