... stories which will interest the public than stories that are in the public interest. This results in people nowadays finding they are surrounded by a net of news covering drugs, terrorism, child abuse, rape, muggings, fraud, and football hooliganism. Bob Franklin's Newszak and News Media laments the triumph of "the trivial over the weighty", as the "intimate relationships of celebrities from soap operas, the world of sort or the royal family are judged more 'news worthy' than the reporting of significant issues and events of international consequence." He criticizes the coverage of celebrities within news and current affairs as being evidence of a decline in hard news values as a result of the ascendancy of infotainment, and the decline of the press as an independent source of information. Indeed, everyday there are also many ordinary people in trouble, but they rarely receive such prominent coverage. American studies covering a wide ...

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