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But however natural it all looks, it is socially and culturally
constructed. Television news, for example, despite its immediacy, is a
mammoth feat of social construction.
And even that "live link", the on-the-spot report from "Our
Correspondent", may have been manufactured at the head office and
fed back to the correspondent who is simply reading from an autocue.
All news is professional construction of social reality.
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