Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2003

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/S15328415JMR0201_4

Abstract

Mark Silk has proposed in Unsecular Media that journalists operate with a limited series of topoi and that these are borrowed from religion. Silk thus claims when journalists write about religion, they do so in a way that ultimately supports religious values. In this study, I apply topic analysis to recent news coverage of Jesse Jackson’s marital infidelity to determine the extent to which the topos of hypocrisy was employed and whether this employment supported or challenged a religious (as opposed to secular) worldview.

Copyright Statement

This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the Journal of Media and Religion © 2003 Taylor & Francis; Journal of Media and Religion is available online at http://www.informaworld.com. DOI: 10.1207/S15328415JMR0201_4

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