ABSTRACT
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto on 27 December 2007 prompted heavy media coverage around the world. This chapter looks at the coverage of the Bhutto assassination in the Norwegian and US media, and analyses how established news media (CNN and NBC in the US; NRK and TV 2 in Norway) used amateur footage of the assassination in their reporting. Our primary question is how amateur footage is textually embedded into the news narrative. The editing of such footage into the news and the discursive variations by which newscasters introduce, contextualize, and explain events through the amateur lens, can help to reveal how professional news organizations relate to the increasing flood of amateur footage in the news.
