ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author considers a further aspect of the process of representation: the effects in the press discourse brought about by the narrative mode of representation. It demonstrates significance of narrative as representational form in the preconstruction of a discourse about deviance. Even when the Greenham women’s point of view is included in a press report, operational procedures within the narrative contrive to give this less credence than the version framed by journalist, and at no point does the story stop being ‘the media version’ and slide into becoming ‘the women’s version’. For the Greenham women, the ‘publicity’ achieved through the press coverage has always been thus double-edged: every new(s) story both announced their presence and effaced it in the anticipation of its ending. Awareness of the influence of preconstruction can also show that individual stories are greatly influenced by their positionality within the overall life and death of Greenham Common as a media concern, as a ‘story’.
