Methodology
Our overall goal for this ethnography was to gain perspective on The Post, and understand the key features of a newspaper as a discourse. None of us have experience with newspapers or the type of language we began our ethnography with research to understand what academics were already saying. The points outlined in the synthesis sum up the finding of the research. We then drafted interview questions that would critique our finding, and would expand information on what had not already been found. When we were discussing whom to interview, we decided to first look at the editor-in-chief of the Post because discourse communities are often governed by authority figures. He would provide us with information on how he believed The Post should, and does function. We also wanted to get the perspective of a writer who is just entering the discourse so that he can shed light on what he was learning in order to become a member of that discourse. We conducted both interviews and both were able to provide an inside perspective on the discourse, language, and lexis that is involved within The Post.