ABSTRACT
Journalists work within organizational structures and adhere to editorial values and pressures that influence the work they produce. Furthermore, journalists are people who are part of the shared cultural practices that readers and audiences are engaged with in society. As this chapter shows, we must analyze news, discourse, and ideology as a polygonal complex of societal, political, and interpersonal relations. In other words, ideology in the news should not be approached conspiratorially: it is part of our culture(s).
