What is it about?
This article explains how news media create and foster national myths when they report on national issues--in this case, immigration.
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Why is it important?
Immigration is in the news with the European Refugee Crisis, the US unaccompanied child immigrant crisis, and 12 million undocumented workers. This research is based on a full year of news reporting from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN. The story may be today's news, but the myths are ancient.
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A sociolinguist and news media scholar.
Professor Otto Santa Ana
University of California Los Angeles
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This page is a summary of: The cowboy and the goddess: Television news mythmaking about immigrants, Discourse & Society, November 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0957926515605962.
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