News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about
who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a
marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers
but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives
of identity in objective reality. News as a fundamental social
process comes into being not when an event takes place or when a
report of the event is created but when that report becomes news to
someone. As it moves off the page into the community, news
discovers - through its interpretations - its reality in the lives
of the consumers. This book explores the path of news as it moves
through the tangled labyrinth of social identities and asserted
interests that lie beyond the page or screen. The language and
communication-oriented study of news promises a salient area of
investigation, pointing the way to an expansion, if not a
redefinition of basic anthropological ideas and practices of
ethnography, participant observation, and "the field" in the future
of anthropological research.
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