How Crime Is Represenred In The News Media

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role. Not only do they express the definition of the situation, but they also signal the social or political opinions of the newspaper about the events. That is, headlines not only globally define or summarize an event, they also evaluate it”.
Crime can attract attentions easily and occurs constantly which makes it; an irresistible source of news for the reporters. Here rises the question, within the described rush of news reporting, do the reporters care about the news values? Are they aware of the impact of the news reports for the society? Particularly about hate crime reporting, which is a very fragile issue for the societies, and also it concerns mainly the most vulnerable components of our community. Besides all, can they be orientating the society consciously? This can either be in a positive way or a negative way. Can a responsible reporter, who cares about the society, that he or she lives in, introduce a hate crime incident in a way that which helps the society ...

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try to be as just and fair as possible. Objectiveness and neutrality are amongst the most essential virtues of news reporting. News reporters should stick to ‘what happened exactly’ and commit themselves to state only the incident itself without planting any personal or political opinions. Otherwise, reporters could create themselves a role of evaluating, criticizing and commenting, which should totally be left to the readers.
With shortly mentioning about news values, in the following part, this study will try to shed a light on ‘how news reporting can have an impact on the society’.
The impact of media: Media has a power of steering the ideas of the crowds and shaping the ...

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