Notes and Jottings

“The Master Narrative in Journalism”:http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2003/09/08/basics_master.html

bq. To understand better the mind of the mainstream press, pay close attention to that phrase, “the story” when listening to journalists talk about their work. The story is not only what a daily reporter gets, it is journalism’s way of “getting” the world, of naming, packaging, and punctuating events. The Enron Story refers not to news accounts about the company Enron, but to an episode in corporate criminality that largely eluded the press when it happened but afterwards became big news.

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