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Moral Discrepancy and `Fudging the Issue' in a Radio News Interview

William Housley

Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University housleyw{at}cardiff.ac.uk

During the course of this article I employ the reconsidered model of membership categorization analysis in order to explore the normative, categorial and sequential characteristics of talk within a radio news interview. Furthermore, I explore the categorial and sequential characteristics of a particular form of adjacency and other features of the talk concerning the topic of banning fox hunting. The article explores transcribed materials as a means of illustrating how the alleged practice of providing answers that `fudge the issue' within political radio news interviews is facilitated by questions that introduce a specific moral device. Furthermore, it is argued that issues concerning accountability and the media need to be informed by studies that explore the precise characteristics of situated talk-in-interaction displayed within such settings.

Key Words: action • ethnomethodology • intention • membership categorization analysis • moral discrepancy • talk-in-interaction

Sociology, Vol. 36, No. 1, 5-21 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0038038502036001001
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