creators_name: Lester, L
creators_id: Libby.Lester@utas.edu.au
type: article
datestamp: 2008-03-28 02:11:26
lastmod: 2008-07-18 10:42:59
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title: Wilderness and the loaded language of news
ispublished: pub
subjects: 400199
full_text_status: restricted
abstract: This paper addresses the politicisation of the idea of wilderness in the Australian news media and questions how journalistic labelling in news copy intensified this process.  It is based on research into the coverage of the Franklin Dam blockade in the summer of 1982-83, the first wilderness campaign to attain global stature. Specifically, it analyses the coverage of the 10-week protest in the Melbourne Age and the Hobart Mercury, and draws on the work of Allan Bell, Teun van Dijk and Roger Fowler to discuss how journalists and their readers formed an 'alliance of shared meaning'.
date: 2005-05
date_type: published
publication: Media International Australia incorporating Culture & Policy
volume: 115
pagerange: 123-134
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1329-878X
official_url: http://www.uq.edu.au/emsah/mia
citation: Lester, L (2005) Wilderness and the loaded language of news. Media International Australia incorporating Culture & Policy, 115 . pp. 123-134. ISSN 1329-878X
document_url: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/3594/1/lester-wilderness.pdf