Tag: News

Countering Mainstream Narratives Fake News, Fake Law, Fake Freedom


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English | November 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1949762661 | 260 pages | MOBI | 2.38 Mb
Faced with the startling and blaring unity of global Western mainstream messaging, the public has become ever more distrustful of the MSM narratives―and with good reason. Authoritative sources have begun pushing back and offering cogent challenges to these proclaimed truths―and in turn, the digital gatekeepers have been increasingly cracking down on what they regard as unwelcome alternative views―irrespective of the stature of the persons providing them.

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Resistance Advocacy as News Digital Black Press Covers the Tea Party


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English | ISBN: 1498566855 | 2018 | 158 pages | EPUB | 1185 KB
Resistance Advocacy as News: Digital Black Press Covers the Tea Party examines the Black and mainstream press’s digital interpretations of the Tea Party during President Barack Obama’s first term. The Tea Party narrative and the white ideologies disseminated by conservative groups was, and continues to be, an intricate story for journalists to tell. This book tracks coverage of the Tea Party from the modern group’s beginning in early February of 2009 until two weeks after the 2012 general presidential election in November. While many mainstream journalists either fail to recognize, or ignore all together, the racial component that the Tea Party poses to Black solidarity, this book shows that Black reporters working for the Black press absolutely recognize the racial component and provide more thorough discussions than their mainstream counterparts. Historically, the Black press has existed to fill holes of misrepresentation in the mainstream press; to that end, this book addresses questions surrounding the ongoing necessity of the Black press and whether our society is "postracial," combining a quantitative analysis of implicit racial frames with a qualitative analysis of resonant myth, and providing empirical evidence that Black people still struggle to have their voices heard in the mainstream press.

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Representations of Islam in the News A Cross-Cultural Analysis


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English | ISBN: 1498509878 | 2016 | 296 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The representation of Islam is unquestionably a critical test for comparing journalistic reporting across countries and cultures. The Islamic religion has weight in international reporting (defining what we termed "foreign Islam"), but it is also the religion of numerically important minority groups residing in Europe ("national Islam"). The first part of the book is "setting the scene." Three chapters provide insights in dominant patterns of the representation of Islam as detected by various authors and studies involved with Islam representation in Europe. Part two, the core section of the book, contributes to the development of the field of comparative journalism studies by comparing several countries and six media systems in Western Europe: the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium (Flanders), the French-speaking part of Belgium (Wallonia), the Netherlands, France, Germany, and the U.K. Part three of this book presents two reception studies, one qualitative and the other quantitative. Equally important, as the bulk of attention goes to Western Europe, is the extension towards the representation of Muslims and Islam outside Western Europe. Part four of the book is devoted to the representation of Islam in some of the so-called BRICs-countries: Russia, China, and India.

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All the News That’s Fit to Sell How the Market Transforms Information into News


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English | 2003 | ISBN: 0691116806, 0691123675 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 2.5 mb
That market forces drive the news is not news. Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors’ products. But in All the News That’s Fit to Sell, economist James Hamilton shows just how this happens. Furthermore, many complaints about journalism-media bias, soft news, and pundits as celebrities-arise from the impact of this economic logic on news judgments.

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Authoritarian Journalism Controlling the News in Post-Conflict Rwanda


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English | ISBN: 0197623425 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Journalists working in authoritarian countries contend with competing institutional logics. This is particularly the case in post-conflict countries, where journalistic practice is simultaneously shaped by historical antagonisms, global development initiatives, and the authoritarian state. While journalism schools and professional organizations speak a Western logic of objectivity and independence, political history instills a logic of subordination, and organizational business models instill a logic of financially motivated censorship. As more countries move away from democratic models, more and more journalists will face these seemingly irreconcilable pressures.

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The Shaping of News A Framework for Analysis


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031219627 | 240 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
This book provides readers with the understanding required to analyse the range of key factors that shape the production of news, and to assess their implications for the role of news and journalism in democracy. It brings existing research together under the umbrella of a central organising framework to explore how news and its production is shaped by a multiplicity of factors including the norms, values, role perceptions and ethics associated with journalism as a profession, the role of news sources, the changing character and significance of news audiences, the aims and objectives of news organisations, and the political, economic and social contexts within which news is produced. Exploring these factors in depth, using examples, and considering the changing conditions of news production, the chapters chart significant changes, challenges, and responses to provide the essential background for understanding the consequences of current transformations for the democratic qualities of news.

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