THE STYLE OF NEWS MEDIA (BROADCAST JOURNALISM).

The world of the news media embraces the spheres of written, or 1) print (newspapers and magazines), and 2) spoken, or broadcasting (radio and television), journalism.

It performs multifarious functions:1. to inform a wide audience about the events in the news, 2.to suggest and often impose their possible interpretation or 3)just to share an opinion about them with a contemporary.

Each paper or channel has worked out its house style – a journalistic style characterized by the preferred forms of expression. Their selection mainly depends on the following 3 factors: 1)the awareness of what its readership/ listener/ viewer wants; 2)the treated area (politics, economy, science) that predetermines the application of the correspondent vocab units including neologisms, abbrev, international wds; 3)the allotted (распредел) for a particular variety time and space.

Modern radio & TV broadcast news & they educate and entertain the listener /the viewer. Only about 5% of broadcast production is devoted to current news and its discussion.

Current news is reported in the news bulletin or newscast. It traditionally consists of a series of news items and falls into several blocks (general, politics, business, sport, weather).

Sometimes it is expanded by a crawl line.

TV & radio news programmes start up and end with the headline which is a news round-up containing the main news issues read out before the full broadcast and summarized at the end. In television each of the items is presented in the form of a documentary.

News broadcasting is characterized by: 1)impartiality of expression 2) neutral and clichéd language. The viewers /listeners are effected not only by the emotive (e.g. genuine metaphors and similes) and argumentative (e.g. opinions of experts, eyewitnesses’ evidence, generalization, parenthesis, parallels, connectives) verbal means.

The influence is reinforced by diff non-verbal modes: 1)the observer’s voice & personality; 2)a spec selection of background sound techniques (energetic or sorrowful music) 3)In TV intensification by the video image (pitiful pictures).

Most often reported news is afterwards surveyed and interpreted in TV and radio news magazines, often being the product of investigative journalism.

TV and radio commentariesare spoken accompaniments to a broadcast. They may accompany various public events (funerals, inaugurations, processions). But the most frequent kinds of commentary are those associated with sports & games. According to D. Crystal, they can be of two types: 1) the ‘play-by-play’; 2) the ‘colour-adding’ commentaries (display pre-event background, post-event evaluation, and within-event interpretation).

Features of the ‘play-by-play’ commentary: 1) a highly formulaic manner of expression (helps fluency and gives the commentator time to think) 2)At times the speed of delivery gets slower or faster, reflecting the atmosphere in the field. 3)The discourse structure is cyclical, as commentators by summary regularly inform the listeners or viewers who have just switched on or simply lost track of what is happening. 4)use of the present tense, ellipsis, and the inverted word order. 5)the frequent use of the passive voice. It allows the commentator to delay mentioning the player’s name.

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