How a small-scale panic turns into an unstoppable news wave about mass mugging on the beach

Gonçalo Pereira Rosa

doi:10.5117/9789462982178/CH05

How a small-scale panic turns into an unstoppable news wave about mass mugging on the beach

Gonçalo Pereira Rosa^*

^*Autor correspondente para este trabalho

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An incident on a Portuguese beach in 2005 was built and distorted in the national media as an instance of a new crime, replicating known parameters of the Brazilian ‘arrastão’ (mass mugging). This chapter aims to discuss news values, organizational routines, self-referential production standards and bias and prejudice in newsrooms. The chapter suggests that, when in progress, a news wave – built with the contributions of major mass media organizations – is a near unstoppable force and any arguments against it tend to be dismissed.

Idioma original	English
Título da publicação do anfitrião	From media hype to twitter storm
Subtítulo da publicação do anfitrião	news explosions and their impact on issues, crises and public opinion
Editora	Taylor and Francis AS
Páginas	187-208
Número de páginas	22
ISBN (eletrónico)	9781040777756
ISBN (impresso)	9789462982178, 9781041179832
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462982178/CH05
Estado da publicação	Publicado - 1 jan. 2025

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CECC: Research Centre for Communication and Culture: UID/00126/2025. Pluriannual 2025-2029
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