Negotiating Cultural Taboos in News Reporting: A Case Study of the African Diasporic Media in the UK

摘要: News reporting conforms to the basic journalistic principles of news values, gatekeeping, sourcing routines and ethics. However, some taboo poses an editorial challenge these professional because its impact on relationship between media their audiences. Hence Gans argues that embeds dual attributes — is, ‘the values in value implications news’ (Gans, 2004, p. 40). Hall succinctly explained differences by noting former (i.e. formal value) refers elaboration story (photo + text) terms ideology common sense understandings as what constitutes newspaper discourse’ (Hall, 179) latter ideological values) connoted themes interpretations’ (ibid.). These contrasting operational definitions imply is influenced sociocultural factors process meaning creation.