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There are two common traps for the journalist here. First is the assumption that because a politician says something, we ought to record it. Not true. â•… 33 ‘They are only politicians’. Just because some middle-aged man in a grey suit has chosen to make a speech or a statement does not make it news. Most speeches and statements are expressions of the entirely expected. It is only when they say something surprising that it becomes news. A leading reformist, liberal politician condemning the slow pace of change in a society is nothing new.
Other assumptions about readers come into play. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of the ‘vox pop’ (in which members of the public chip in comments – not all of which are high in originality – on a story) and case histories, in which someone tells of their experiences in a sidebar to the main story. More often than is healthy, an editor’s main obsession with these is not the quality of the personal drama being told, but the age, gender and appearance of the subject. An attractive thirtysomething woman, even if her remarks are utterly banal, is nearly always preferred to the moving testimony of an older, less photogenic one.
Subject This is the broad category that the story falls under – crime, environment, health, diplomacy, economy, consumer, military, politics and so forth. All subjects are in theory equal, but some are more equal than others. Crime, for instance, has a higher value than fashion because it is patently of broader interest. Each of these categories then breaks down into subdivisions, for example, crime breaks down into murder, fraud, abduction, racketeering, drugs, robbery, blackmail, rape, assault, etc.