JOUR 601 Lecture 67: Discursive Patterns In News Media Coverage
16 Aug 2020
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People like to reaffirm the sense of community and normality by showing the negative stories about those seen as deviant and in tolerated by institution. This kind of journalism presents its audience as sharing a common set of virtues like: Common sense morality underpins popular journalism at the national and local level. It explains the occurrence of certain frames that journalism and journalists adopt when reporting on conflic5. The law and order frame as well as the injustice and defiance frame are two key frames used by protagonists in conflicts and rebellions. The law and order frame portrays one side of a conflict as threats to law and order. The injustice and defiance frame focuses on creating one party as the victim of injustice determined to back up and stand up for its rights. Part of the reason for the media"s appeal for popular conflict frames is that they can be used to create rhetorical packages of argument and image.
