... the forms and uses of English: the production of news; television and radio commentary; advertising and computers and the Internet. In considering the growth of the daily newspapers it is important to realise that they have come to define the nature of modern news, that they have developed their own discourse structure and learnt to embed texts from a wide range of sources to produce a story. News stories have also developed a time structure which is different to traditional narratives. The technology which appears to have encouraged these forms is the mid 19th century telegraph which enabled news to be transmitted quickly and sowed the seeds of the news industry's primary value: the scoop, almost live' news. The industry's obsession with speed has led to many changes in form compared to other narrative structures. William Brewer, a cognitive psychologist, talks about the way people understand stories; event and discourse ...

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