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Publication details [#26681]

Wortham, Stanton E. F. and Michael Locher. 1994. The cast of the news. Pragmatics 4 (4) : 517–533.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

narrative | news reporting | perspective | political language

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

Unlike most work on political news reporting, this paper proposes to tie media bias to analyses of narrative perspective. Whilst patterns of (unavoidable) perspectival reporting constitute bias, reporters can somewhat vary their perspectives over time.