Making News & Journalism

 
 
 
 
Gaye Tuchman's 1978 book Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality is concerned with journalism as an activity that transforms events. Tuchman refers to news as "a window on the world" making it a social and cultural resource. The book is filled with a number of themes and ideas, the main notion being that news stories shape the public's knowledge of what is happening by selectively focusing on certain events, or parts of certain events. Tuchman contends that what gets published, or aired on television, depends on what the editor or publisher wants covered, and how they want to cover it. Of course not every event or incident can be covered by the news media, but Tuchman's implication is that the media have their own agendas and viewpoints that influence what issues are covered and how they are covered. A central theme is that of news as knowledge. The public does not receive information and images directly, but witness them through the various media presentations. According to Tuchman, the ways in which the news is constructed forms a basis for the defining and constructing of social reality. "News imparts to oc


     
 
 
 
    

 

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