Image, Text and Representation. News Analysis

This analysis is of two separate news programs, both broadcasted on the same day on different channels. These channels are the Nine Network and the ABC.
In this analysis I shall discuss the various selection and organization processes each channel uses in their selected stories and the relative importance to each story, according to each channels news values.
I shall also choose one story that is covered by both news programs, developing two storyboards; I will use these storyboards to analyze the ways in which the stories are constructed on each channel and what semiotic meanings are conveyed. I shall also discuss the similarities and differences in their respective approach to each story.

Selection and Organization of stories.

I shall begin by discussing the differences in the number of reports covered by each channel. The ABC broadcast covered 20 reports in all, including the weather, sport and finance reports.
The Nine Networks coverage however, only covered 18 reports...