The semantic effect of inaccuracies can be largely described under one heading: they make a story more newsworthy. I have already noted in passing that many changes to time adverbials make a story sound more recent than it really is. The concept of recency is just one news value or factor which media researchers such as Galtung and Ruge (1965) suggest are influences on the selection of news. In my data, we see these factors in- fluencing the editing of accepted news, as Galtung and Ruge hypothesized they would (1965, p. 71). In almost every example given above, the in- accuracy clearly enhances the story's value on some news factor. Here I can only sketch findings relevant to a few of the factors: