ent packaged in a broad range of communication styles is a key to understanding mass media news.”
There are different characteristics of news which Bennett feels helps to undermine its substance and its veracity. According to the literature, he argues that there is a consensus among critics that mass media news is “personalized, dramatized, fragmented, and normalized” (Bennett 7). For example, Bennett mentions repeatedly in the book that political actors and journalists take a dim view of the mass audience’s ability to grasp anything more than the simplest images and accounts of news stories. One way in which journalists achieve this simplicity and attract consumers (we must remember news is a product being sold) is to add drama to stories that make them more infot
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