1. Phone hacking Scandal
The phone hacking scandal story has made an effect on the public and
celebrities. With this story being celebrity news, the priority of this news story
isn’t as important as stories such as; ‘BBC Liberal Bias’. The importances of
stories vary depending on the audience and where it is being broadcasted.
The newsroom policyon radio shows such as; Key 103 and Capital FM, is to
share celebrity news, because of their young audience. On these radio
shows they would use availability of audio from the celebrity’s’ point of view
for the audiences entertainment. This story is an international interest, being
mentioned on News of the World. However, it isn’t immediacy. The phone
hacking scandal has its own importance to the public. They would take
interest in this story because they would want to know if it will affect them.
Newsrooms take this into account, whether it is in the human’s interest.
"Ironically, this same public are equally outraged when it comes to normal
civilians having their private lives publicly played out."
This quote shows that the news use follow-up anglesto give the story more
opinions and gives radio shows more discussion time. People are interested in
opinions and arguments. Having a public interest agenda helps radio and TV
create an audience. The media aims to entertain, and telling the public they
have information about celebrities’ phones being hacked encourages the
public to be intrigued. Celebrities such as; Hugh Grant, Steve Coogan and
Sienna Miller have claimed that it is their phones that have been hacked.
People could argue that celebrities bring these acts upon themselves;
however, you don’t hear gossip about Steve Coogan, an actor known for his
character Alan Partridge. Whether it is his age, but he isn’t in the lime light
and doesn’t plan to be. With the times moving, it seems as though gossip is
running the world. Celebrities such as, Katie Price, her fame revolves around
the media, you can’t put ‘Jordan’ and Steve Coogan in the same category.
They are both celebrities and that is where the similarities stop. The public
can’t blame them for the phone hacking scandal; it is the media that go
through lengths to find a story.
With these two celebrities if this story was to be broadcasted on the radio,
they could interview them to get two different points of view on the story. This
is their way of having follow-up angles. Another way of having follow-up
angles is to look at more opinions than the celebrities themselves. Such as
their PR’s; “on the one hand, a publicist may tip off the media as to their
clients' whereabouts or promote their latest project.” This again shows that it
isn’t always the celebrities that are asking for the ‘attention’.

2. BBC Liberal Bias
The BBC having a left-wing bias has been noticed by a few people, „Hard
Evidence: How biased is the BBC?‟ A headline in The Staggers. In this story it
uses quotes from the Daily Telegraph, “exhibits a left-of-centre bias in both
the amount of coverage it gives to different opinions and the way in which
these voices are represented”. This would be their story’s availability of audio.
Because this story is a written report, they can’t add interview audio.
However, with it being online, they could put a sound clip or a short visual
interview. This is to bring across opinions from other newspapers and from the
former director of the news for the BBC, Helen Boaden. She commented
saying ‘the corporation held “deep liberal bias” in its overage of immigration‟
back in 2004, when she became the former director.
This story would be the main priority on the BBC news because it is part of
their newsroom policy. Whether it is about them, they can’t skip any news
stories that are in the public interest agenda. For example, the immediacy of
this story is important; this report would get out via Twitter because it is a big
story. Radio broadcasts can report this story almost immediately, meaning
that is the second best way to get a story out to the public. TV can only stick
to their timed schedule; however, a story can be based as breaking news,
meaning they can interrupt any program to get the story out, such as when it
was 911, that story is breaking news. Meaning the report is a story priority.
With a story like this, it is very much in the human interest because they will
listen to the BBC trusting them that they will give out fair information on both
left and right wings. Any follow-up angles can come from the politicians
themselves. They might have a better insight on the report.
Reports on this story give statistics,‘in coverage of immigration, the EU and
religion, these accounted for 49.4% of all source appearances in 2007 and
54.8% in 2012‟ this is giving the public a clear statement of what they have
found. I find that with the proof of the BBC’s bias actions, and the fact they
must have been broadcasting about the left-wing more, enough for people
to pick up on it shows that there is something not right in how they are
controlling the news. The BBC should realise it has been noticed and should
make a change.