Recent research shows how the unwitting "frame" or ideology of news
workers affects the selection and form of the news (e.g. Tuchman 1978,
Glasgow University Media Group 1976). The findings presented here make
it clear that the frame, and the news factors which are part of it, influence the
transmission as well as the creation of news. Editing inaccuracies are not
unpatterned accidents. They serve to make news stories more newsworthy,
however unconscious copy editors may be of the errors and their effect.