quotes from other articles within this work:

p.15 some selection must take place. Not all the events in the world, for instance, are of equal interest to the public; the newsman must therefore have a set of criteria, a 'news sense' with which to select his material.

p.73 The basic product of a newspaper office is knowledge about particular events in the world.

p.28 To point correctly to events in the world being social constructions does not imply: (a) that they are not real in their consequences (although people create social reality this reality comes to dominate them) nor (b) that this reality dominates them in the way that an illusion dominates a dreamer (homicide rates do involve people actually being killed, strikes do involve the withdrawal of labour, theft rates do involve the violation of real property relations etc).

p.181 of the millions of events which occur every day in the world, only a tiny proportion ever become visible as 'potential news stories': and of this proportion only a small fraction are actually produced as the day's news in the news media.

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