Law, Love, and Marriage
Television News and the Production of Publicity in North India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5823387 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amrita Ibrahim (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 224-243 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | BioScope South Asian Screen Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0974-9276 • E-ISSN: 0976-352X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0974927617728139 |
| OpenAlex | W2782934218 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Journalism's mandate is a paradoxical one: to publicize stories of social injustice and sustain their visibility in the public domain, while battling the decay of publicity that is inherent in the very genre of information that is daily news. In this article, I argue that the legitimacy and credibility that Hindi crime journalists create for stories relies on their keen understanding of a complex terrain of institutional scripts and social actions from which the news stories themselves emerge. Analyzing a breaking news story on Hindi channels in 2011, featuring a secret marriage, kinship role inversion, and a woman's public plea for protection from family intimidation, the article explores the complex interpenetration of journalistic, institutional, and social scripts that make up the fraught terrain of "love marriage" in North India. I show, first, how journalists remediate the authority of photographic images through the news image to secure credibility for the story; second, how they locate the story within local and global discourses of criminality and "honor" that fits it into recognizable journalistic storylines. I conclude by suggesting that the production of publicity in television news, in which industrial constraints and the pressure for ratings plays a substantial role, nevertheless relies on existing institutional discourses and social norms with respect to the framing of love, marriage, and criminality. To understand how 24-hour news cycles generate sensationalism, we cannot ignore the sociological ground from which the news stories emerge and through which they circulate to reinforce or reinvent normative cultural scripts
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