Standards of News Coverage Used on T.V. Channels

Since its beginning till today communication means have formed channels for human knowledge. The importance of these means is growing with time as a result of the development of new communication techniques. This made means of communications the focus of the audience who are now dedicating hours of their time to receive the contents of these means. According to these facts, news coverage has become one of the important factors that contributes in arranging the priorities for communication content exposure and also for the formation of the audience opinion about local, regional and international current issues. Through close observation of news content broadcasted on T.V. channels, it is clear that the media select certain news content that concerns a certain issue to be exposed in a certain time while neglecting other issues. This is due to the policy adopted by the media, the media system and the standards the media channel is working according to. From this point of view, researchers in this field have found it necessary to tackle this case in order to find out how these T.V. channels are dealing with news content and according to which standards. This study focuses on the standards used in news coverage and introduces the techniques used in selecting contents presented to the audience.