Covering the homeless: The Joyce Brown story
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Studies in Mass Communication
- Vol. 6 (1), 21-42
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038909366729
Abstract
This analysis examines how network news makes sense of the homeless. We interpret three conventional news narratives and a 60 Minutes story about Joyce Brown, a homeless woman who, against her will, was institutionalized by the city of New York. We examine then how television news marks boundaries between the marginal and the mainstream, between a major socioeconomic problem demanding collective engagement and a personal problem requiring private remedy.Keywords
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