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„The feature by montage conveyed an impression of comprehensiveness (covering all points of view) as well as of balance: ‘hard-line’ councillors or policemen against ‘soft-centred’ community workers; local residents against figures of authority; or (as in the Birmingham Evening Mail’s version) mothers of the accused against anxious mothers in the street. Formally, the issue was left unresolved: evidence was not ignored, but these elements were simply left contradicting each other. It would have been possible for this variety and contradictoriness to be tolerated by the paper (reserving its own judgement for the editorial); in practice, the montage was so selected and shaped that a ‘resolution’ on one side or other of the ideological paradigm did appear to emerge of its own accord.“ (Hall et al., 2013, p. 106) #montage;„The feature by montage conveyed an impression of comprehensiveness (covering all points of view) as well as of balance: ‘hard-line’ councillors or policemen against ‘soft-centred’ community workers; local residents against figures of authority; or (as in the Birmingham Evening Mail’s version) mothers of the accused against anxious mothers in the street. Formally, the issue was left unresolved: evidence was not ignored, but these elements were simply left contradicting each other. It would have been possible for this variety and contradictoriness to be tolerated by the paper (reserving its own judgement for the editorial); in practice, the montage was so selected and shaped that a ‘resolution’ on one side or other of the ideological paradigm did appear to emerge of its own accord.“ (Hall et al., 2013, p. 106) #montage