Understanding News

Table of Contents

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. Contents
6. Acknowledgements
7. General editor’s preface
8. 1 News as communication
   1. In the beginning
   2. News-discourse
   3. Talking and writing about the news
9. 2 Reading the news
   1. Reality and relationships
   2. Sign-systems
   3. Signs
   4. Paradigm and syntagm
   5. Multi-accentuality
   6. Orientation
   7. Connotation and myth
   8. Icons
   9. Simultaneous signifiers
   10. Codes and conventions
   11. Discourses and referents
   12. Socially-structured discourse
10. 3 News and society
    1. Topics
    2. Treatment
    3. Telling
    4. News in society
    5. Capital
    6. The State
    7. Relative autonomy and ideology
    8. Winning consent: hegemony
    9. From class to culture
11. 4 Those who threaten disorder
    1. Preferred readings and ideological closure
    2. ‘News at Ten’
    3. Trial by semiotics
12. 5 Selection and construction
    1. News values
    2. Mapping reality: consensus
    3. Mapping the outsiders: dissent
13. 6 Hail fellow well met
    1. Mode of address
    2. Common sense and images of the audience: conversation
    3. Common sense and ‘understanding’: the bardic function
14. 7 A winter of discontent
    1. Elements of news narrative: visual structures
    2. Institutional and accessed voices: verbal structures
    3. News narrative: fact and fiction
    4. The ‘Nine O’clock News’
15. 8 Producing the news: for ourselves
    1. Producing the audience
    2. Losing the audience
    3. The ‘other’news
    4. Finding the audience
16. 9 Consuming interest
    1. Experience and mediation
    2. Subjectivity
    3. How is ideology ‘consumed’?
    4. Man-made news
    5. Negotiating with ideology
17. 10 Criticizing the news: what to do and where to find it
    1. Projects
    2. Alternatives
    3. Further reading and study
18. Conclusion
19. References
20. Index