Reaction to Pope Coverage

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Broadcast Journalism Tabalon, Lyka Virginia M. 4CA2 Local TV News Media on Pope Francis People who wished to watch the television coverage of the five day visit of Pope Francis in the Philippines live were spoilt for choice with all major Philippine networks carrying full coverage of the events having live location reports. Although each networks, referring to ABS-CBN and GMA as they were the only channels I was able to monitor, has a different treatment in their news program, there were similarities such as dominant frames seen in their reportage and common disposition the reporters had during the live coverage. The Philippine TV news media took a conversational approach in doing their coverage as field reporters were assigned to different areas where the Pope mobile would pass going to the Pope’s destination. The use of colloquial language was evident as reporters on set and on field converse. The changing practices of news reporting involving the use of live interviews, which includes the possibility of unprepared, unscripted verbal performances of newsreader and correspondent reporting a breaking story, fulfilled the requirements of immediacy, recency, newness, closeness, and proximity. On the other hand the unedited, unpackaged material changes the role of journalist into the role of an observer, which is not very attractive for audiences. The lack of story, the lack of construction of the raw material, cannot hold attention in the same way the framed narrative news does. Thus, the live coverage was assisted by news stories in which the Pope was humanized. Narrativism was used; over personalization was apparent. The centralization of a protagonist, the Pope in this case, from his being a rockstar Pope to his childhood sweetheart detaching to him from the institution he’s representing made it to the editor’s cut of what is news. The dominant frame

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