Djevelen ligger i diskursen – En kritisk diskursanalyse av Marte Krogh-saken i VG

• Main Author: Yngve Benestad Hågvar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetsforlaget 2013-01-01
• Series: Norsk Medietidsskrift
• Subjects: Journalism research; Critical discourse analysis; Intertextuality; Press ethics; Journalismresearch; Criticaldiscourseanalysis
• Online Access: https://www.idunn.no/nmt/2013/03/djevelen_ligger_i_diskursen_-_en_kritisk_diskursanalyse_av_

Abstract This article is a critical discourse analysis of a provocative news story later heavily criticized for being based on a misquotation. The analysis shows how the quote is offensive primarily by being assigned to a critical news discourse that constructs a dichotomy between «the conservative upper class» and «modern female Norway». Therefore, the ethics of the case are not just a matter of quotation technique, but rather in which perception of reality the journalists considered it natural to frame the story as a whole – and, in fact, necessary even to make it a story.