'Letting them eat cake': Narrative templates in current affairs/news journalism

This article explores the role of narrative templates in a core domain of public communication, describing a series of narrative structural patterns that underlie the scripting of news and current affairs ‘reports’. From an initial account of the nature of narrative templates and their relation to...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	John Carr
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Asia Pacific Network 2009
Materias:	audience attention discursive theory narratives public communication Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/e7bac39789b94e329a7881025b37cc66
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:e7bac39789b94e329a7881025b37cc66
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e7bac39789b94e329a7881025b37cc662021-12-02T10:34:36Z'Letting them eat cake': Narrative templates in current affairs/news journalism10.24135/pjr.v15i2.9841023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/e7bac39789b94e329a7881025b37cc662009-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/984https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035 This article explores the role of narrative templates in a core domain of public communication, describing a series of narrative structural patterns that underlie the scripting of news and current affairs ‘reports’. From an initial account of the nature of narrative templates and their relation to audience expectations and interpretative regimens, a number of specific story-styles that are employed recurringly in news programmes are described, examining their use and impact for capturing and maintaining audience attention. The process of telling the audience the stories it wants to hear is critiqued in terms of the capacity to subvert the quality of public communication and in terms of enduring concerns within discursive theory. John CarrAsia Pacific Networkarticleaudience attentiondiscursive theorynarrativespublic communicationCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 15, Iss 2 (2009)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	audience attention discursive theory narratives public communication Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650
spellingShingle	audience attention discursive theory narratives public communication Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650 John Carr 'Letting them eat cake': Narrative templates in current affairs/news journalism
description	This article explores the role of narrative templates in a core domain of public communication, describing a series of narrative structural patterns that underlie the scripting of news and current affairs ‘reports’. From an initial account of the nature of narrative templates and their relation to audience expectations and interpretative regimens, a number of specific story-styles that are employed recurringly in news programmes are described, examining their use and impact for capturing and maintaining audience attention. The process of telling the audience the stories it wants to hear is critiqued in terms of the capacity to subvert the quality of public communication and in terms of enduring concerns within discursive theory.
format	article
author	John Carr
author_facet	John Carr
author_sort	John Carr
title	'Letting them eat cake': Narrative templates in current affairs/news journalism
title_short	'Letting them eat cake': Narrative templates in current affairs/news journalism
title_full	'Letting them eat cake': Narrative templates in current affairs/news journalism
title_fullStr	'Letting them eat cake': Narrative templates in current affairs/news journalism
title_full_unstemmed	'Letting them eat cake': Narrative templates in current affairs/news journalism
title_sort	'letting them eat cake': narrative templates in current affairs/news journalism
publisher	Asia Pacific Network
publishDate	2009
url	https://doaj.org/article/e7bac39789b94e329a7881025b37cc66
work_keys_str_mv	AT johncarr lettingthemeatcakenarrativetemplatesincurrentaffairsnewsjournalism
_version_	1718397036297977856

'Letting them eat cake': Narrative templates in current affairs/news journalism

Ejemplares similares