A lot of things happen every day and not everything becomes the news

News is actually a socially manufactured product where Gatekeepers like editors, journalists and owners
select and choose which events are imp and how to cover them.

News isn’t simply just a collection of facts that happen, it’s a special form of knowledge made up of info

News is loaded with info which usually reflects the point of view of the powerful groups which is why it
s caused a lot of criticisms on the
Pluralist perspective on the media.

such as phone hacking and the over reliance by journalists in info from Govt, spin doctors and public
relations industry.

shaped by social, bureaucratic, technological, economic, political and ideological factors in order to
understand how news is manufactured.

They should examine 3 imp influences :

The news values held by journalists and Media Organizations

The organizational or bureaucratic constraints on journalists

Ownership and ideology