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Framing the news: 'bad' mothers and the 'Medea' news frame

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posted on 2023-05-26, 11:33 authored by Goc, NE
This article maps the news coverage and public discourse on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and draws parallels with the 1980 disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain in outback Australia, and the disappearance and murder of JonBenet Ramsey in Colorado in the USA in 1996. In doing so, it uncovers a recurrent and disturbing meta-narrative that places three innocent mothers whose children go missing in a deviant 'Medea' news frame.

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Publication title

Australian Journalism Review

Volume

31

Article number

1

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1

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33-47

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0810-2686

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    Madeleine McCannAzaria ChamberlainJonBenet Ramseynews frame'bad' mothersnews narrativesframing the newsthe 'Medea' news frame

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