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Gatekeeping”
The selection or rejection of events in the ‘real’
world. The concept of gatekeeping tends to be related to
rather mechanistic models of communication processes.
Though it may serve to remind us of the operation of a
selection process in the representation of news, it is
essentially too simplistic to be a great deal of use.
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“Actuality”
The term used in the media to refer to
footage/film/tape of events as they happen. Semioticians
see actuality as a key device for anchoring the
preferred reading on the supposed ‘facts’ presented ‘as
they happened’. |
