ABSTRACT
The B Team3 while forced to reproduce the dominant narrative* also attempted to subvert it through selective use of “political analysts.” The following excerpt from a stringer’s report illustrates this method of sourcebased subversion [emphasis added]:
These speculating “analysts” could be UCA academics or, most likely, other reporters* Whether derived from an actual source or not, such vague attributions are a means by which reporters subvert the institutionallyfavored argument and interject their own points of view, or in this case, a well known point of fact. The author of the above report knew as well as anyone how much territory the FMLN controlled, but was unwilling to directly countermand the position of the “U.S. Embassy official,” In order to comply with the rules of objective journalism, she had to use a surrogate voice to blunt the official^ presentation.
