Monday 2 December 2013

News and Treatment Values

The concepts of Treatment values

There are six types of Key Treatment Values which have been found by Burton 1990, these include; Visuals, Drame, Saga, Conflict, Human Interest and Actuality. Treatment values refer to what us valued about the 'treatment' of the message, or in other words show how stories are handled.



News values;

Immediacy - is the even possibly the same day? Is it a breaking news story?
Familiarity - Will people understand it immediatly? Is it culture, calender, custom or habits?
Amplitude - is the story large? Does it affect a sufficient amount of people to be included in the national news?

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