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This analysis examines how network news makes sense of the homeless. We interpret three conventional news narratives and a 60 Minutes story about Joyce Brown, a homeless woman who, against her will, was institutionalized by the city of New York. We examine then how television news marks boundaries between the marginal and the mainstream, between a major socioeconomic problem demanding collective engagement and a personal problem requiring private remedy.
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Campbell et al. (1989) studied this question.
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