Sunday, November 23, 2008

News Framing- Exercise- 10%

Using the enclosed form, choose a news story (from electronic or print media) and examine how the news message is framed.

Basic Information:

Station/publication___________________
Date__________________ Time____________________

News ___________________________________________

Reporter's Name__________________________________________

Content:

Main Message Conveyed

How it Was Conveyed:

Reporter's Lead

Visuals

Key Phrases

Interviews

Reporter Commentary

Other

Summary: Did you find the coverage sympathetic to a point of view, mixed, carefully neutral, negative, confusing, erroneous, boring, other?
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COMA402 News Framing Exercise is based on a presentation given by Tony Palmeri, Department of Communication, UW Oshkosh, on a forum panel dealing with ‘the love-hate relationship’ existing between the US and the rest of the world, especially the Middle East.