Fourth Estate or Mouthpiece? A Formal Model of Media, Protest, and Government Repression

Whitten-Woodring, Jenifer; James, Patrick

doi:10.1080/10584609.2012.671232

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“…These include newsworthiness factors, the policies of the country where the media organization operates, and news sources in relation to Western and non-Western countries. Regarding the political aspect, it is argued that the news agenda can be shaped by the state through direct ownership and media sources' control (Enikolopov, Petrova, & Zhuravskaya, 2010), or through regulating the activity of privately owned media by placing licensing requirements and imposing laws that limit the use of particular forms of expression (Whitten-Woodring & James, 2012). Although it is argued that media in democracies are in most cases independent from government influence as they mainly care about profit maximization, and have their own institutional biases, this study shows that media institutions operating in democratic societies are not immune from state influence.…”

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Frequency Analysis as a Way of Uncovering News Foci: Evidence from the Guardian and the New York Times

Haider¹

2017

IJEL

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Institutions or people can express their political stances or attitudes toward a specific topic if they keep using some words rather than others repetitively and consistently. This study uses the corpus linguistic technique of frequency to examine the influence of the country where the newspaper is published on its agenda and coverage using a corpus of about 7 million words of news articles about Libya and Qaddafi in the Guardian (Britain) and the New York Times (the U.S.) from 2009 to 2013. The compiled corpus is divided into three time periods, namely: before, during, and after the 2011 Arab uprisings. The analysis shows that the two newspapers had different news foci/themes in the three investigated time periods, and that they are influenced by the stock of ideas circulating in the culture in which they are working. Both newspapers covered more news of events that draw the attention of the people of the countries where they are located and published. The paper concludes that there is a strong relationship between media and politics where media is a central arena for viewing the political events.

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Frequency Analysis as a Way of Uncovering News Foci: Evidence from the Guardian and the New York Times

Haider¹

2017

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“…The various opposing dialectics play out in mainstream reporting. The linearity of the press room as a mouthpiece of the state (George, 2012;Whitten-Woodring and James, 2012;Kaur et al, 2016), requires more significant interrogation, where moments of crisis, points to possibilities of negotiation for more significant representational spaces by the margins in media representation. We see competing voices shifting the hegemonic discourses on migrant labor and health, where alternative voices, including subaltern voice progressing the discourse toward a structural exploration of the conditions experienced.…”

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Outbreak Inequality: Mainstream Reporting of Singapore's Migrant Workers in the Margins

Kaur‐Gill

2020

Front. Commun.

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Singapore saw a majority of COVID-19 infections plaguing low-skilled migrant construction workers by late April 2020. In the initial phases of the outbreak, mainstream frames were quick to highlight the gathering of low-skilled workers in open areas as sites to be surveilled, shaping the divisive practices of othering in early frames on migrant worker behaviors. These reports were manufactured as Singaporeans continued to gather in public spaces in large groups during the outbreak. Mainstream reports were quick to inform audiences of the surveillance and control on display for disciplining migrant workers. As the crisis developed to impact migrant workers predominantly, the erasures are recovered with mainstream press reporting worker vulnerabilities and discussing the structural implications of managing migrant labor as neoliberal subjects. The structural conditions of migrant labor were, in fact, centered in mainstream narratives, and dormitories as public health threats were extensively discussed, shedding light on discourses relating to outbreak inequality. The rights framework, however, remained largely absent in mainstream news frames about migrant workers.

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“…1). Whitten‐Woodring and James () claim that “although human rights nongovernmental organizations have advocated that access to independent news media will improve government respect for human rights, recent empirical studies have shown this is not always the case” (113). The scope of the media is limited to what information can be presented in a new story.…”

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Liminalizing Progressive Efforts in Chicago: Moving Forward and Past Violence

Lambertz-Berndt

2015

Conflict Resolution Qtrly

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This article focuses on the framing of pervasive violence in South Side Chicago neighborhoods, subsequently offering a different lens to highlight the contributions and progressive efforts stemming from individuals residing in these areas. There remains a necessary shift from the passive images of those killed by violent acts to the active efforts of nonprofits working to decrease violence as well as educational programs focusing on interpersonal skills, mediation, and emotional intelligence.

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Fourth Estate or Mouthpiece? A Formal Model of Media, Protest, and Government Repression

Cited by 30 publications

References 35 publications

Frequency Analysis as a Way of Uncovering News Foci: Evidence from the Guardian and the New York Times

Frequency Analysis as a Way of Uncovering News Foci: Evidence from the Guardian and the New York Times

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Outbreak Inequality: Mainstream Reporting of Singapore's Migrant Workers in the Margins

Liminalizing Progressive Efforts in Chicago: Moving Forward and Past Violence

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