ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how different techniques of speech presentation color the news ideologically. It suggests that the following categories: Recorded speech (RS), Direct speech (DS), free indirect speech and indirect speech with signaled citation, free direct speech (FDS), indirect speech and Reported speech-act. RS is an extreme case of DS and is used very rarely in Radio News Report Style. In both Indirect speech and FDS, language is characteristically unmarked. A mere report of a speech act can be situated at the extreme pole of the speech presentation continuum, a clear case of "telling." This strategy is far more frequent in journalism, print and electronic, than in fiction. If the use of archaic Hebrew by an Iranian minister raises suspicion as to its authenticity, the use of colloquial Hebrew by an Israeli minister raises suspicion as to its authenticity, the use of colloquial Hebrew by an Israeli minister appears reliable enough.
