Press Reporting and Broadcasting

It has already been stated above that press reporting and broadcasting is a rather complicated non-homogeneous phenomenon and may be very eclectic from the stylistic point of view. It is common knowledge that press reporting and broadcasting is a strong ideological weapon and is surely socially and politically marked. The same text addressed to a foreign listener sounds more imposing and edifying.

The events of political importance can be presented to the public in different lights by using similar techniques, by changing the voice timbre. This only proves the statement that a journalist, a reporter cannot be completely independent in his political views of his class, party, country and so on.

The central function of a newspaper and news bulletin is to inform, to present a certain number of facts to a reader, listener, or a viewer with the effect of giving the impression of neutral, objective, factual reporting. So all types of discourse in that style share some important prosodical features and putting them together in this chapter may not be too misleading.

It should be noted, however, that the speech of radio and television announcers is somewhat different though they use similar techniques in the presentation, the ability to be seen on the screen helps a TV news reader to guide the understanding to the viewer by means of facial expressions and gestures. On the contrary the radio announcer, being isolated in a studio, tends to exaggerate certain prosodic features to be better understood by a listener.

The speech of a radio announcer is very close to the "ideal model" and especially during news coverage when he elegantly enunciates the news in rather chilly distant tones adopted specially for this occasion.

Here is the example of a radio news coverage. The text consists of two items in which national news of a rather neutral character is described:

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