Events should be explained to the audience through clear psychological motivation for actions. The aim of realism is to unify elements into a whole which prevents an attempt to read a text by breaking it down into its component parts. Realism in Journalism Journalists have long resisted postmodernism and cling to notions of objectivity, of writing outside of a system. The narrative form of a message dictates certain issues about its reality. At the simplest level it must be coherent, have a begining, middle and end.
Ideology influences the form of messages, more subtly than mere political ideology.
Entertainment is a very deceptive form as it masks much of the ideology and defies reading as a mere piece of entertainment. Silences in text are as important as messages. She is not stalked by the villain. No playing possum when shot. Revision You may wish to go over the material in Unit 6 on crime scene photography.