When it comes to breaking news, news corporations want to be the first to cover the story. Whether it is a pointless local story of a man with an abnormal sized fruit, or a murder story, breaking news is breaking news rather the less. As mentioned in the lecture, a message is the change of scale, pace or pattern of behaviour.
The message is a change, depending on how it is delivered, with a pace or pattern determining the behaviour. For example, if a story was to break the news, depending on the pace, that can determine the behaviour of how other news publications will act in accordance to the message that was delivered.
Another key concept is event-frame-story. Once the event happens, it can be framed however way it wants in order for it to make it a ‘story’. For example, if there was a flood, like there were a few weeks ago, this can be framed as either climate change, or severe wet weather. This all depends on how the STORY is being depicted. What can be breaking news can ultimately BREAK the news depending on how the frame and the story are delivered by the news media.
This guys face in the meme I created explores EXACTLY how news corporations react when their news becomes BREAKING!
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