GSE Publications

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of this Version

12-1-1994

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Suggested Citation:

Locher, M.A and Wortham, S. (1994). "The Cast of the News". Pragmatics, Volume 4, Issue 4, December 1994, pages 517-533.
Publisher URL: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze a newscast for the narrative perspectives within it, using the work of Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin on voicing. A Bakhtinian analysis of a newscast offers a richness rarely found in studies of media bias, for reasons we discuss in the body of the paper. Our question is not, "How do we eliminate perspectival news reporting?" (which is impossible), but "How do we analyze perspectives in the news?" and "Why does news reporting nevertheless seem objective?"

Date Posted: 01 June 2007

This document has been peer reviewed.