Preface // Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements // Media and Discourse: A Critical Overview Peter Garrett and Allan Bell // Opinions and Ideologies in the Press - Teun A. van Dijk // The Discourse Structure of News Stories - Allan Bell // News from Nowhere: Televisual News Discourse and the Construction of Hegemony - Stuart Allan // Political Discourse in the Media: An Analytical Framework - Norman Fairclough // Conversation Analysis: Neutralism in British News Interviews - David Greatbatch // Front Pages: (The Critical) Analysis of Newspaper Layout - Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen // Signs and Wonders: Interpreting the Economy through Television - Kay Richardson 220 // Media - Language - World // Paddy Scanned 251 // References // Index