Iscensatta samtal: Om relationer mellan politik och journalistik

Abstract

Staged talk: On relations between politics and journalism. This article focuses on political talk in the media. Taking the point of departure in discourse and conversation analysis the aim is to study relations and methods on a micro level in two forms of staged talk; the interaction in live interviews and the practices of quoting in edited news reports. The study of live interviews is based on programs broadcasted during the Swedish election campaigns 2002 and 2006. The study shows how relations of power are negotiated in interaction. Methods used by the politicians to deal with delicate situations created by the questions asked are analysed. The analysis of edited news reports shows how techniques of quoting have been part of a process moving the stage of the political debate more and more into the media. Quoting is a flexible resource frequently used by journalists in the dramatization of news stories and the recontextualization of others voices.