News Time

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4356285
AutoresAllan Bell (0000-0003-1563-8923, autor correspondente)
Ano1995
Volume4
Fascículo3
Páginas305-328
Data de publicação1995-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x95004003003
OpenAlexW4253166435
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas14

The news is one kind of story, and time is a basic element of story. A feature of all kinds of stories is their chronological time structure: events tend to be told in the order in which they happened. Although when is one of the journalist's basic facts, news stories follow a radically different ordering. They begin generally with the most recent event and cycle back through earlier events, giving information in instalments. This makes news discourse uncohesive and difficult to understand. Modern news discourse has developed this time structure through a combination of the news values of recency and novelty, the journalistic practices of the deadline and the scoop, and technology which increasingly enables live coverage in `real' time. One result is that news neglects the why and how because of its concept of when

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