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Ethnopolitical Discourse Among Ordinary Malaysians: Diverging Accounts Of “The Good Old Days” In Discussing Multiculturalism., Richard Buttny, Azirah Hashim, Kiran Kaur
Ethnopolitical Discourse Among Ordinary Malaysians: Diverging Accounts Of “The Good Old Days” In Discussing Multiculturalism., Richard Buttny, Azirah Hashim, Kiran Kaur
Richard Buttny
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Journalists’ Discursive Construction Of Public Opinion On President Obama And The Economy: The Uses Of Voters’ Voices From A Focus Group., Richard Buttny, Kathleen Haspell
Journalists’ Discursive Construction Of Public Opinion On President Obama And The Economy: The Uses Of Voters’ Voices From A Focus Group., Richard Buttny, Kathleen Haspell
Richard Buttny
This study investigates the journalistic construction of the news from a focus-group of eleven Philadelphia-area voters. The journalists not only represent the participants’ voice, they also present themselves as keen observers—they attempt to display expertise as journalists. The written stories use the participants’ voices more than was found in the journalists’ oral discussion about the focus-group. In both the oral and written stories, the journalists ventroloquise participants’ voices within the genre, the news-feature story--how the dire political economy affects ordinary people. The journalists may represent the participants’ opinions while simultaneously recontextualizing participants’ voices within their own storyline.