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Publication details [#52050]

Packwood Freeman, Carrie. 2009. This Little Piggy Went to Press: The American News Media's Construction of Animals in Agriculture. The Communication Review 12 (1) : 78–103.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

animal epic | mass media | news reporting | representational structure | text analysis

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This textual analysis of over 100 stories, published from 2000 to 2003, demonstrates that American news media often discursively objectify farmed animals in national print and broadcast news discourse.