Publications
Publication details [#61614]
Santa Ana, Otto. 2016. The cowboy and the goddess: Television news mythmaking about immigrants. Discourse & Society 27 (1) : 95–117. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
Annotation
Two age-old story-types appear to explain all modern US network television news stories on immigrants: whilst Western news stories express nationalism, the Sumerian goddess Inanna news story challenges the country’s foundational myth. Thus immigration journalism serves to amuse, brainwash, and educate.