Comparison of Storytelling Processes and Social Meaning Construction in the Crime News of a Television News Program
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This research article is part of research, entitled “Storytelling Process of Crime News by Thai Press.” Data was collected from news reports on the death of Orawan Wongsricha or “Nong Chompoo,” a Thai girl who was murdered at Kok Kork Village in Mukdahan province. The news reports were created by “Tup Toh Khao” news program aired on Amarin TV 34 and “Thairath News Show” news program aired on Thairath TV 32. The objective of this qualitative research is to study the storytelling methods and social construction of meaning through people in the news. Content and textual analyses were used by the research.
The researcher found that the storytelling methods of criminal news by Amarin TV 34 and Thairath TV 32 was similar to that used for fiction content. There were plots, structures, characters, settings, dialogue, storytelling tactics, as well as social construction of meaning deployed in the news reports. The “protagonist” and “antagonist” exchanged their roles according to time, witnesses, and evidence, resulting in the characters having images that were not fixed.
The social meaning construction method used in Nong Chompoo’s stories consists of 6 elements, including disclosure of timelines of people involved in the case, searching of evidence and witnesses by the reporters themselves, reference to specialists and police, dramatic presentation of the characters’ emotions, positive and negative language to describe the characters, and reference to supernatural beliefs.
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