Trickster...
This is a copy of an article I recently published on the John Marsden defamation tiral and mythological images mobalised in the media coverage of the trial.
Recent scholarship has explored the mythical function of news reporting. A diverse set of studies has shown that when news takes mythic shape it...
News and Myth...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Journalism and the media on 09 21st, 2003 | No Comments
In times like these it becomes only too obvious that news has a mythical function. News producers fall readily into the pattern of creating heroes and villains but more importantly reading and writing the news is a cultural function that brings some people into the center and casts out others to the...