'The Snowtown we know and love': Small newspapers and heinous crimes

Rural Society

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 116-125

  Hess, Kristy ^a   Waller, Lisa ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Backpacker murders; Crime; Media power; Moe; Regional newspapers; Snowtown; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862992087     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/rsj.2012.21.2.116     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Anderson, B. (1983). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London, England: Verso Books.
2. Bourdieu, P. (1977). Outline of a theory of practice. Cambridge studies in social anthropology (p. 16). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
3. Bourdieu, P. (1986). The forms of capital. In J. Richardson (Ed.), Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education (pp. 241-258). New York, NY: Greenwood Press.
4. Bourdieu, P. (1996). On television and journalism. London, England: Pluto Press.
5. Bowd, K. (2003). How different is different?: Australian country newspapers and development journalism. Asia Pacifc Media Educator, 1(14), 117-130.
6. Bowd, K. (2009). Did you see that in the paper? Country newspapers and perceptions of local ownership. Australian Journalism Review, 31(1), 49-61.
7. Carey, J. (1985). Overcoming resistance to cultural studies. In M. Gurevitch, & M. Levy (Eds.), Mass communication review yearbook (Vol. 5, pp. 27-40). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
8. Cottle, S. (2003). Media organization and production. London, England: Sage.
9. Couldry, N. (2000). The place of media power: Pilgrims and witnesses of the media age. London, England: Routledge.
10. Couldry, N., & Curran, J. (2003). The paradox of media power. In N. Couldry, & J. Curran (Eds.), Contesting media power: Alternative media in a networked world (pp. 3-17). Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield.
11. Couldry, S. (2004). Theorising media as practice. Social Semiotics, 14(2), 115-132.
12. Couldry, S. (2009). My media studies: Thoughts from Nick Couldry. Television & New Media, 10(1), 40-42.
13. Cuneo, C., & Fife-Yeomans, J. (2010, August 31). Grisly find reopens wounds of Milat's killing field at Belanglo State Forest. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved June 19, 2011, from http://www.news.com.au/national/grisly-find- reopens-wounds-of-milats-killing-field/story-e6frfkvr- 1225912119172#ixzz1Krp4X6Im
14. Debelle, P. (2003, September 9). Snowtown sadists get life - Two found guilty of serial killings. The Age, p. 8.
15. Entman, R. E. (2010). Framing media power. In P. D'Angelo, & J. A. Kuypers (Eds.), Doing news framing analysis: Empirical and theoretical perspectives (pp. 331-355). New York, NY: Routledge.
16. Evensen, B. (2008). The responsible reporter (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Peter Lang.
17. Ewart, J. (1997). 'The scabsuckers - regional journalists' representation of indigenous Australians. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 3, 108-117.
18. Ewart, J. (2000). Capturing the heart of the region: How regional media define a community. Transformations, 1, 1-13.
19. Ewart, J., Meadows, M., Forde, S., & Foxwell, K. (2005). Media matters: Ways to link community radio and community newspapers. [online]. Australian Journalism Review, 27(2), 87-103.
20. Fenton, P. (2010, July 24). Town accepts its murder film fate. The Adelaide Advertiser, p. 1.
21. Fewster, S. (2011, January 21). Two Snowtown secrecy orders lifted, 148 left. The Adelaide Advertiser, p. 3.
22. Galtung, J., & Ruge, M. H. (1981). Structuring and selecting news. In S. Cohen, & J. Young (Eds.), The manufacture of news: Social problems, deviance, and the mass media (Rev. ed., pp. 52-63). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
23. Glasgow University Media Group. (1976). Bad news. London, England: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
24. Gleeson, M (1999). The Jaidyn Leske murder. Sydney, NSW: HarperCollins.
25. Griffiths, M. (1998). Moccasins and 'Respect': Writing practices during media coverage of the Moe story. Media International Australia, 88, 99-120.
26. Hall, S. (1973). The determination of news photographs. In S. Cohen & J. Young (Eds.), The manufacture of news: A reader (pp. 176-190). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
27. Hall, S. (1992). The West and the rest: Discourse and power. In S. Hall & B. Gieben (Eds.), Formations of modernity (pp. 276-331). London, England: Polity Press.
28. Haran, P. (1999, May 23). The Snowtown horror: A town undeserving of its infamy. The Sunday Mail, p. 8.
29. Harrison, J. (1986). Deathknock: The media come to grief. Australian Journalism Review, 8(1&2), 4-7.
30. Heinrichs, P. (1997, June 21). Jadyn Leske: A little boy lost in a lost town. The Age, pp. 1-2.
31. Hess, K. (2010). A complex connection: Community newspapers and tiers of social capital. In MediAsia 2010: The Asian conference on media and mass communication official conference proceedings (pp. 422-433). Kitanagoya Aichi, Japan: The International Academic Forum (IAFOR).
32. Jacobsen, G., Fenely, R., & Cook, A. (2010, November 23). Milat link to Belanglo's latest grisly murder case. The Sydney Morning Herald, p. 1.
33. Jeffres, W., Lee, W., Neuendorf, K., & Atkin, D.(2007). Newspaper reading supports community involvement. Newspaper Research Journal, 2(1), 6-23.
34. Kirkpatrick, R. (2001). Are community newspapers really different? Asia Pacific Media Educator, 10, 16-21.
35. reuters, M., Young, L., & Lezin, N. (1998). Measuring social capital in small communities. Atlanta, GA: St Louis University, School of Public Health.
36. Lang, G. E., & Lang, K. (1981). Watergate, an exploration of the agenda-building process. Mass Communication Review Yearbook, 2, 447-468.
37. Lawler, S. (2004). Rules of engagement: Habitus, power and resistance. The Sociological Review, 52, 110-128.
38. Male, A. (2010). South Australia ⋯ home of the dud name [ABC Local Radio]. Retrieved April 10, 2011 from http://blogs.abc.net.au/sa/2010/12/ southaustralia-home-of-the-dud-name-.html?site=northandwest&program= north-and-west-sa-breakfast
39. Manuel, M. (1999, June 2). Country people always pull together in the hard times. The Plains Producer, p. 3.
40. McCaughey, J., & Bodna, B. (1997, June 26). Tragedy unfolds in a town long neglected. The Age, p. 5.
41. McCormick, C. R. (1995). Constructing danger: The mis/representation of crime in the news. Halifax, NS, Canada: Fernwood.
42. McManamey, R. (2004). The relationship between community newspapers and social capital: The power to empower (PhD thesis). Retrieved June 19, 2011 from http://eprints.utas.edu.au/283/
43. Meadows, M. (1998). Making journalism: The media as a cultural resource. Australian Journalism Review, 20(2), 1-23.
44. Meadows, M. (2005). Journalism and indigenous public spheres. Pacific Journalism Review, 11(1), 36-41.
45. Mersey, R. (2009). Sense of community differs For print, online readers. Newspaper Research Journal, 30(3), 105-119.
46. Minus, J. (2010, November 23). Another body in Ivan Milat's killing field. The Australian, p. 3.
47. Moe under the microscope: A detailed look at a town under fire. (1997, June 26). LaTrobe Valley Express, pp. 1-13.
48. Noelle-Neumann, E. (1993). The spiral of silence (2nd ed.). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
49. Our Snowtown: A town rallies to clear its name. (1999, May 26). The Plains Producer, p. 1.
50. Parker, L. (2009, April 17). The Snowtown we know and love. The Plains Producer, p. 15.
51. Phillips, K., Pudney, J., Merriman, J., Steene, M., & Mell, L. (1999, May 29). Vault of death. The Adelaide Advertiser, p. 61.
52. Place of great wickedness. (1999, May 23). The Sunday Tasmanian, p. 4.
53. Puddy, R., & Edwards, V. (2011, February 25). Snowtown murders just won't go away. The Australian, p. 19.
54. Putnam, R. (2000). Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
55. Silverstone, R. (2007). Media and morality: On the rise of the mediapolis. Cambridge, England: Polity Press.
56. Silvester, J. (2006, September 6). Beyond justice. The Age, p. 13.
57. Snowtown residents become reluctant participants in a media frenzy as 'circus' comes to town. (1999, June 2). The Plains Producer, p. 3.
58. The day the sky fell in at Snowtown. (1999, May 23). The Sunday Telegraph, p. 7.
59. Tippet, G. (1997, January 26). The valley of the dole. The Age, p. 5.
60. Town's image bloodied. (1999, May 22). The Courier Mail, p. 5.
61. Tuchman, G. (1978). Making news. New York, NY: Free Press.
62. Zucker, J. I. (1978). The adequacy problem for classical logic. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 7, 517-535.