Language of News
This process involves verifying information before accepting it as true.
What is Fact Checking?
This is the term for how close a news story is to the audience, geographically or culturally.
What is Proximity?
This happens to audiences when a news outlet favors one side over another.
What is Media Bias?
The phone ban within schools was introduced by which New Zealand Government and Party.
The Truman Show, Truman's surname comes from this place in California where a lot of television shows are filmed.
What is Burbank?
This satirical website publishes humorous, fictional news stories. Also, the name of a variety from the allium family.
What is The Onion?
This news value is about whether a story has just happened or is currently happening.
What is Timeliness?
This happens when news outlets focus more on clicks than facts.
What is Clickbait?
Alerts set heckles up people's spines this week that was a warning for what
What are risks of potential Tsunami after a strong 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia?
In Feels Good Man, this character became an unexpected hate symbol.
Who is Pepe The Frog?
News told in a way to differentiate itself from other stories on the topic is called this
What is News Angle?
This value describes how much significance a story has on people’s lives.
What is Impact?
When people only read things that support their views, it's called this.
What is confirmation bias?
Following suit of this country, New Zealand is hoping to ban social media for under-16s
Who is Australia?
In Ace In The Hole, the public gathers at the scene, turning it into this kind of event.
What is a Spectacle/Media Circus?
News that comes from a fact based journalism, but is written as an authorial response
What is an Opinion Piece/Editorial Piece?
Dog bites man is not immediately a news story, but man bites dog is for this reason.
What is novelty/oddity/bizarre?
News can reinforce this when it always shows the same group negatively.
What is Stereotypes?
40,000 workers strike over pay and working conditions in this sector
What is Health?
The film The Truman Show critiques this media issue, which also exists in reality TV.
What is the exploitation of people for entertainment?
The author of a story is commonly denoted by this part of a story
What is a byline?
Stories that involve tension between two groups are chosen for this value.
What is conflict?
Social media platforms use this to show you content you’re likely to click.
What is algorithms?
Which standing MP is behind the idea to change New Zealand passports so Te Reo words are less prominent
Who is Winston Peters?
Feels Good Man critiques how internet culture can mutate symbols through this process.
What is memeification or recontextualization?
News relies on this to survive
What is Audience Viewership and Advertising Revenue?
Stories that involve celebrities or influential people often score high on this news value.
What is prominence?
This social media effect creates a bubble where you only see your views.
What is an echo chamber?
A change in pay equity laws is said to be affecting this workforce
What is 70% female-dominated workforces?
Kirk Douglas plays this manipulative journalist in Ace In The Hole
What is Chuck Tatum? (will accept either name)
This type of manipulation alters real images to mislead audiences.
What is Deepfake Technology?
Coverage of war, politics, or crime often rates high in this value.
What is controversy or conflict?
Constant exposure to tragic news may result in this emotional state.
What is Desensitization?
Māori actors have come under heat for playing Hawaians in the Apple TV+ series. (Can name the series or the Lead actor of the series)
What is Chief of War? Who is Jason Momoa?
The film explores how media symbols can be weaponized due to this online issue.
What is a lack of regulation or viral misinformation?
A headline using the word “slams” instead of “responds” shows this.
What is Emotive Language?
Feel-good stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things are examples of this.
What is Human Interest Story?
This subtle bias occurs through image choice, headline tone, or omission.
What is Implicit Bias?
A 75 Year Old Grandmother was punch on the sideline of a football match in this North Shore suburb last week
What is Long Bay?
In The Truman Show, the audience's obsession with Truman reflects this media theory.
What is voyeurism/media spectatorship/parasocial relationships?
Sharing a news story without checking facts is an example of this.
What is Unintentional Spreading of Misinformation?
A local car crash is more likely to make your town’s news than one overseas due to this value.
What is Proximity?
This is when the media selects certain quotes or images to sway opinion.
What is selective reporting or cherry-picking?
About 100,000 people registered to vote on election day in 2023, including teens who’d just turned 18. A new policy would mean they could not vote in the next election. This leader said changes would only affect “dropkicks” who refused to get organised.
Who is David Seymour?
In, Ace In The Hole, the town sheriff works with Chuck to delay the rescue for this reason.
What is publicity or political gain?
Traditional news writing is meant to be told in the inverted (this shape), where all the important information comes first and editors can essentially remove from the bottom without changing meaning
What is Pyramid?
A story that affects millions, like a natural disaster, ranks high in this news value.
What is Magnitude/Impact?
Deliberately playing into the public divide of opinion to raise tensions is called
What is Media Polarisation?
This controversial Auckland billionaire and her Husband are squabbling with locals over attempts to get a helipad at their property.
Who is Anna Mowbray and Ali Williams?
In Feels Good Man, groups of the undesirable group called N.E.E.T adopt the name from 4Chan, what does it stand for.
What is Not in Education, Employment, or Training?