Annotation News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing their underlying assumptions.
Contents
1. News as communication -- 2. Reading the news -- 3. News and society -- 4. Those who threaten disorder -- 5. Selection and construction -- 6. Hail fellow well met -- 7. A winter of discontent -- 8. Producing the news : for ourselves -- 9. Consuming interest -- 10. Criticizing the news : what to do and where to find it.