Crime News: The Fascination of the Mundane

Abstract

This article firstly presents a brief summary of a study done on the crime coverage in eight Swedish dailies over a twelve-month period. The article then asks why such material holds readers' interests, and this leads to a methodological discussion of interpretive analysis. An important feature of news texts, their thematic infrastructure, is seen as a key to their `transcontextual' character. This allows the meaning of the stories to be readily transposed from the public world to one or more of the many microcosms which constitute the everyday lives of newspaper readers.

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