The Structure of Foreign News¶
Galtung, J., & Ruge, M. H. (1965). The Structure of Foreign News: The Presentation of the Congo, Cuba and Cyprus Crises in Four Norwegian Newspapers. Journal of Peace Research.
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- News Values
- Newsworthiness
- Third, it systematically diverges from importance: events with large objective consequences but low novelty, insufficient visual material, or no proximate human drama (slow-moving public health crises, structural economic shifts, long-run environmental change) routinely fail to clear the threshold that faster-moving, more dramatic events with smaller objective consequences clear with ease — a divergence that critics of journalism trace directly to the weighted criteria-bundle that constitutes newsworthiness judgment
This sourceGaltung and Ruge's frequency factor, under which developments unfolding over long time-spans go unrecorded unless they reach a dramatic climax, as one source of the gap between news selection and events' weight. Galtung and Ruge's 1965 study of why some foreign events become news and others do not. The study of the Congo, Cuba and Cyprus crises in four Norwegian newspapers and its twelve news factors, from frequency to reference to something negative. Galtung and Ruge's hypotheses that the more news factors an event satisfies the likelier it is to become news, so that selection reflects factor profiles rather than events' real-world weight.
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- Third, it systematically diverges from importance: events with large objective consequences but low novelty, insufficient visual material, or no proximate human drama (slow-moving public health crises, structural economic shifts, long-run environmental change) routinely fail to clear the threshold that faster-moving, more dramatic events with smaller objective consequences clear with ease — a divergence that critics of journalism trace directly to the weighted criteria-bundle that constitutes newsworthiness judgment
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