The Unideal Victim and Top Lawyer : A critical discourse analysis of the Göran Lambertz case in Swedish tabloids post #metoo.

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine Swedish press coverage of arape case post #metoo movement involving the former Chancellor of Justice, GöranLambertz. The research questions are as follows: How are the victim and thesuspected perpetrator portrayed in the articles? In what ways are rape mythsconstructed in the articles? How did journalists in Expressen and Aftonbladet framethis news story? Using a critical discourse analysis method with the help of previousstudies, representation, framing, ideal victim and news value theory showed theresults that both tabloids had similar portrayals of the participants involved with fewdifferent variations and both upheld rape myths in their reporting.In conclusion we found that the victims’ unfavorable characteristics such ascriminal background was highlighted while Göran Lambertz’ achievements andcareer were brought up. Expressen used an episodic framing for their reportingwhile Aftonbladet had a mix of episodic and thematic framing. Journalists fromboth tabloids participated in using semantic framing and linguistic choices thatseparated the suspected perpetrator from the crime.