Charles, Alec2015-04-292015-04-292014-05-05Charles, A. (2014). The paper menagerie: Making sense of soft news. In A. Charles (Ed.), The end of journalism version 2.0: Industry, technology and politics (pp. 209-235). Peter Lang.9781906165482http://hdl.handle.net/10034/550891This book chapter uses one myth - the modern legend of an urban crocodile - to explore one contemporary aspect of what Bird & Dardenne ("Myth, chronicle, and story: Exploring the narrative qualities of news" in Media, myths, and narratives ed. J Carey, 1988: 69) called the 'enduring symbolic system' of journalistic discourse.enmythjournalismBook chapter