MEDIA COVERAGE ON TRIALS OF CRIMINAL CASES
Newsworthiness is the ability of a story to attract massive media coverage. A criminalcase is newsworthy if it is current and has an impact on a large number of people. Theprominence of the perpetrators of the crime also determines its worthiness in that a case is givenmore coverage if it involves famous personalities (Papandrea, 2013). Investigations of humaninterest lead to public obsession, and their verdicts […]