ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ways newspaper reporters 'represent' oral interaction in the discourse of the 'news'. It explore the concept of 'accessed voice' in the representation of speech, in other words, who is given voice and how this voice is reported in the press. The discourse of the media in general is an instrument of cultural reproduction, highly implicated within power structures and reflecting values about the world. Generally, male speakers are glossed by their professional designations or position in the government or in some kind of public institution. Patrick Minford, of the University of Liverpool, a monetarist and supply side economist Denis Giffod, the founder of ACE the Association for Comics Enthusiast and owner Dr Jan Pentreath, chief scientist of the government authority Sir Charles Tidbury, former chairman of Whitbread brewers. The male representatives of powerful institutions, frequently accessed, 'provide newspapers with the modes of discourse which already encode the attitudes of powerful elite'.
