Abstract:In this article we reflect on some of the narrative strategies used to structure political scandals. In order to do this we conceive political scandals in journalism as a mentality. The narrative strategies contained in this mentality help toward understanding these events, which we perceive as scandals. We shall present three of these strategies contained in what we call “artificial unity”, which transmit to readers the idea that there is endless and uniform narratives on scandals. Using both critical analysi… Show more
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