1. Sociology, 13, 3, September 1979, 368-85.

2. Sociology, 14, 3, August 1980, 457-68.

3. We recognize that the paper on which we focussed attention was not necessarily typical of the general run of Murdock's writings.

4. The paper is by Tony Trew, ` “What the Papers Say”, Linguistic Version and Ideological Difference' in Roger Fowler et al., Language and Control, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. Some comments on this are made in our `Language, Thought and Reality', Sociology.

5. Marilyn Lester, `Generating Newsworthiness: The Interpretive Construction of Public Events', American Sociological Review, 45, December 1980, 984.

6. Ibid., 993.

7. Colin Sumner, Reading Ideologies, Academic Press, 1979.

8. See Harold Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology, Prentice Hall, 1967.

9. Cf. Ken Morrison, Reader's Work, Unpublished Ph.D., York University (Canada), 1979.

10. Murdock, op. cit., 465.

11. Jim Schenkein, `The Radio Raiders Story', in George Psathas (ed.), Everyday Language: Studies in Ethnomethodology, Irvington, 1979.

12. See note 2 to the Schenkein paper, ibid. 201.

13. N. McKeganey and B. Smith, `Reading and Writing as Collaborative Production: Some Comments Upon Anderson and Sharrock's Biasing the News', Sociology, 14, 4, November, 1980, 615.

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid., 616.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. Ibid., 617.

21. Ibid., 617-8.

22. Ibid., 618.

23. Ibid., 620.

24. See Harry Sacks, unpublished lectures, No. 7, Fall Quarter, 1966, 8-11, UCLA.

25. McKeganey & Smith, op. cit., 618.

26. Ibid., 615.

The Persistent Evasion of Technical Problems in Media Studies: A Reply to Murdock and McKeganey and Smith

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