This article is a critical discourse
analysis of a provocative
news story later heavily
criticized for being based on
a misquotation. The analysis
shows how the quote is offensive
primarily by being assigned
to a critical news discourse
that constructs a dichotomy
between «the conservative
upper class» and
«modern female Norway».
Therefore, the ethics of the
case are not just a matter of
quotation technique, but
rather in which perception of
reality the journalists considered
it natural to frame the
story as a whole – and, in
fact, necessary even to make
it a story
