Key term - Gatekeeping
- Refers to the editing and filtering process about what information is let through to the receiver.
Acronym - CUPPTUNE
C - Continuity, the stories which are in the news already.
U - Unambiguous, the stories that are easy to understand.
P - Personalisation, the stories which include human interests about 'real' people and their problems.
P - Proximity, the stories which are close to home.
T - Threshold, a huge impacting story which is big.
U - Unexpectedness, an event which is out of the ordinary.
N - Negativity, the bad news tends to be 'more' interesting to read.
E - Elite person/places, the stories about important people or nations.
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