Topic 1: Social Functions of News Reports
Task 2
Now,
you will analyze the social functions of the three news
reports, by analysing the issues, the target readers, and the points of
interests or importance, by answering the following questions.
2. What is each
reporter’s position towards the issue? Provide the related words, expressions,
and sentences as evidence to support your argument.
3. How would each
news report enlighten its readers? Provide the related words, expressions, and
sentences as evidence to support your argument.
The
analysis of News Report 1 has been done for you as an example. Study the
example carefully.
News Report 2
Question 1:
1.
Who might be interested in reading each news
report?
To answer the first question, you need to make a list of people or
tourists who likely have good interest
in surfing, particularly in Lombok.
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Target readers:
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People
in General
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Civil
around there
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Oil
Mineral
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Government
·
Police
·
Natural
Observer
·
Investor
/ Businessman
·
...
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Question 2:
2.
What is each reporter’s position towards the
issue? Provide the related words, expressions, and sentences as evidence to
support your argument.
The word ‘position’ is synonymous to attitude. The news reporters’
attitudes towards a news may include words that are associated to feelings and
judgements, such as neutral, biased, provoked, enthusiastic, judgemental, etc.
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The reporter’s position towards
the issue:
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The
reporter has a neutral or objective
position towards the event.
1) Reporting
the event by just retelling the information given by the main source, the police.
Evidence:
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"A
group of people came to gather up oil and they weren't supposed to be
there," the disaster agency said in a statement.
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Agung
Pribadi, a ministry spokesman. : "This is a case of illegal drilling and
the ones responsible for it must be dealt with by the law,"
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Agung
said the well was being operated by local residents, adding that he was not
sure if there were other illegal wells in the area.
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Lieutenant
Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro, chief of the East Aceh district police, told reporters
at the scene that firefighters were trying to "break the chain of
oxygen" in the well to stop the fire. He confirmed the well operation
was illegal, but he said many villagers depended on it for their livelihood.
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"Oil
doesn't come up to the surface easily in these old wells, so they try to pump
it up manually, then try to separate the oil by distillation in barrels, and
that's where they probably had the fire," said Mangantar Marpaung,
former chief of the Indonesian Mining Fire and Rescue Agency.
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Question 3:
3.
How would each news report enlighten its
readers? Provide the related words, expressions, and sentences as evidence to
support your argument.
A reader reads a news report to be enlightened. The manner in which the
reader is enlightened by the news include knowledge enrichment, emotional
arousal, awareness raising, etc.
As shown by the example, by reading the news, the target readers obtain necessary information
associated with Wiseman’s accident.
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Information obtained:
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Reading
the news report, the readers will have good understanding about:
1) The
event or accident
Evidence:
A
fire erupted at an illegal oil well site in Indonesia's northernmost province
on Wednesday, killing at least 18 people and injuring about 40 others, some
of whom were badly burnt, authorities said.
2) The
sources of the information:
Evidence:
- the National Disaster
Management Agency.
- Agung Pribadi, a ministry
spokesman.
- Lieutenant Colonel Wahyu
Kuncoro
- Mangantar Marpaung, former
chief of the Indonesian Mining Fire and Rescue Agency.
3) The
reason of A fire erupted at an illegal oil well site:
Evidence:
Local
news reports said it may have started with a spark from a blowtorch or a
worker smoking a cigarette.
4) The
time of the accident:
Evidence:
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On
Wednesday, around
1.30am
5) The
location of the accident:
Evidence:
at
village of Pasir Putih in East Aceh district
6) The
victims:
Evidence:
at
least 18 people and injuring about 40 others
7) The
authorities’ attention to the accident:
Evidence:
Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the
state-owned oil company Pertamina sent teams to Aceh
Lieutenant Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro, chief of the East Aceh
district police, told reporters at the scene that firefighters were trying to
"break the chain of oxygen" in the well to stop the fire.
"Oil doesn't come up to the surface easily in these
old wells, so they try to pump it up manually, then try to separate the oil
by distillation in barrels, and that's where they probably had the
fire," said Mangantar Marpaung, former chief of the Indonesian Mining
Fire and Rescue Agency
8) Historical
relationship
Evidence:
In
some cases, the wells were abandoned by the Dutch colonial administration
that once ruled
Indonesia
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News Report 3
Question 1:
1.
Who might be interested in reading each news
report?
To answer the first question, you need to make a list of people or
tourists who likely have good interest
in surfing, particularly in Lombok.
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Target readers:
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·
People
in general
·
Zoo
official
·
Animal
lovers
·
Government
·
...
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Question 2:
2.
What is each reporter’s position towards the
issue? Provide the related words, expressions, and sentences as evidence to
support your argument.
The word ‘position’
is synonymous to attitude. The news reporters’ attitudes towards a news may
include words that are associated to feelings and judgements, such as neutral, biased, provoked, enthusiastic, judgemental, etc.
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The reporter’s position towards
the issue:
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The
reporter has a neutral or objective
position towards the event.
Reporting
the event by just retelling the information given by the main source, the
officials
Evidence:
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Four
heavily armed poachers who targetted wild elephants in Malaysia have been
caught, officials said Tuesday, the second such arrest in less than two
years.
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Wildlife
officials said the gang caught near the town of Gerik in the nothern
Malaysian state of Perak was found with deer antlers and suspected tiger
bones.
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“This
crew is notorious. They hunt elephants,” wildlife department chief Abdul
Kadir Abdul Hashim told AFP.
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A
police statement said weapons including rifles and homemade shotguns as well
as animal snares were found after they arrested the gang.
There
is no evidence of offensive or emotional expressions used in the
news report.
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Question 3:
3.
How would each news report enlighten its
readers? Provide the related words, expressions, and sentences as evidence to
support your argument.
A reader reads a news report to be enlightened. The manner in which the
reader is enlightened by the news include knowledge enrichment, emotional
arousal, awareness raising, etc.
As shown by the example, by reading the news, the target readers obtain necessary information
associated with Wiseman’s accident.
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Information obtained:
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Reading
the news report, the readers will have good understanding about:
1) The
event or accident
Evidence:
Four
heavily armed poachers who targetted wild elephants in Malaysia have been
caught,
2) The
sources of the information:
Evidence:
Wildlife
officials
3) The
place of arrest
Evidence:
near
the town of Gerik in the nothern Malaysian state of Perak
4) The
evidence goods
Evidence:
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deer
antlers and suspected tiger bones.
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an
elephant shot dead by the poachers in a nearby forest with its tusks ripped
out
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weapons
including rifles and homemade shotguns
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Now,
it’s your turn to analyse the other two news reports by using the same
table as the template. First, write your analysis as shown in the example.
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