Middle East Conflict as a TV News Scenario: A Formal Analysis

Barton, Russell R.; Gregg, Richard B.

doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1982.tb00504.x

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“…2 For a discussion of this history, see Patterson (1978). Shortcomings of content analysis are identified in Patterson (1978), Dyer (1982), Barton and Gregg (1982), Ewen (1983), and Fry and Fry (1985). 3 Few television news stories are sounded without being simultaneously depicted.…”

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“…For discussions that assume, assert, or validate shared meanings based on mass media texts, see, for example, Altheide, 1976Altheide, , 1985Barthes, 1973Barthes, , 1977dBarton and Gregg, 1982;Comstock, 1980;Epstein, 1973;Feuer, 1978;Frank, 1974;Gans, 1979;Gerbner and Gross, 1976;Gripsrud, 1990;Hartley, 1982;Himmelstein, 1984;Lewis, 1978;Lichty and Bailey, 1978;Lotman, 1976;Marc, 1985;Monaco, 1977;Peters, 1981;Tuchman, 1978Tuchman, , 1981Tudor, 1970;Wolfe, 1985;and Zak, 1985. …”

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Who's Gotta have it?: The ownership of meaning and mass media texts

Wolfe

1992

Critical Studies in Mass Communication

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Wolfe

1992

Critical Studies in Mass Communication

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“…Barton and Gregg (1982) which coincided with the Iranian hostage release. To my knowledge, no one has studied critically form's operation in an extensive series of newspaper reports on a prolonged conflict.…”

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The function of form in newspapers' political conflict coverage: TheNew York Times'shaping of expectations in the Bitburg controversy

Olson

1995

Political Communication

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Drawing on the example of President Ronald Reagan's 1985 visit to the Bitburg war cemetery, this article argues that form, in the Burkean sense, can operate in a body of conflict coverage to shape expectations for subsequent developments in the controversy covered and to help judge the appropriateness of news "characters'" subsequent choices in the featured drama. The focus on a series of news repons, rather than individual articles, reveals the exercise of progressive and repetitive form in the agonistic dramas characteristic of conflict coverage. The analysis ultimately concludes that news narratives differ from fictional narratives. The news media are not held responsible for satisfying the expectations cultivated by the form of their news coverage and by the unique relationship between news narrators and news "characters." The study further suggests that an understanding of how Burkean form functions in conflict coverage potentially provides theoretical explanations of how some media agendasetting operates.It is well established that how news media select and report information shapes news audiences' interpretations and evaluations of events and people. For example, lyengar (1991) argues that the presentational format the news media use to frame an event as predominantly either episodic or thematic promotes auditors' assignment of responsibility for the situation as individual or systemic, respectively. Altheide and Snow (1979) claim that each communication medium has a unique format that shapes how it presents and interprets phenomena and includes its "grammar," organization of material, presentational style, and means of emphasis (p. 10). As such "media logic" becomes second nature to auditors, it provides for a shared "normalized" social life. Likewise, Postman and Powers (1992) demonstrate how profit motive combines with a medium's capabilities to influence journalistic decisions about newsworthiness and shape that medium's structuring of news.While each of these three analyses, as well as others in the same vein, is

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“…Most studies examining YouTube content have used content analysis (e.g., Paek, Kim, and Hove 2010;Vraga et al 2014). However, content analysis is deficient in describing the complex relationships of meaning across an entire promotional campaign (e.g., Barton and Gregg 1982;Bush and Boller 1991). In accordance, we conducted a rhetorical analysis of the RGD promotional videos as an effective means of exploring the harmony (e.g., Bush and Boller 1991;McGuire 1984) among the YouTube promotional videos associated with the RGD campaign.…”

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Rhetorical Analysis of Resistance to Environmentalism As Enactment of Morality Play between Social and Ecological Well‐Being

Amos¹,

Spears²,

Pentina³

2015

Journal of Consumer Affairs

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Well‐being is a goal pursued by many consumer resistance movements. This study contributes to the literature by analyzing the rhetorical appeals and techniques utilized by the Resisting the Green Dragon (RGD) movement that employs the value of social well‐being to oppose environmentalism. We integrate prominent consumer resistance discourses and religiously charged nationalistic mythical narratives to interpret the RGD phenomenon using rhetorical analysis. The authors examine the rhetorical structure of the RGD YouTube campaign designed to activate resistance to environmentalism. Results indicate that the RGD campaign portrays environmentalists as morally bankrupt individuals surreptitiously limiting the freedom of all‐too‐willing mainstream consumers. The results further suggest that the RGD campaign positions environmentalism as an anti‐Christian and un‐American phenomenon that sacrifices social well‐being for ecological well‐being. The foundations of the RGD's view are elaborated on and implications are discussed.

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Middle East Conflict as a TV News Scenario: A Formal Analysis

Abstract: Analysis of CBS coverage of a Middle East conflict suggests that two dominant, mutually supporting patterns of meaning-rediction and afirmation of network a u t h o r i t m r e created b y the interaction of conventional and organic formal elements of news.

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Who's Gotta have it?: The ownership of meaning and mass media texts

Who's Gotta have it?: The ownership of meaning and mass media texts

The function of form in newspapers' political conflict coverage: TheNew York Times'shaping of expectations in the Bitburg controversy

Rhetorical Analysis of Resistance to Environmentalism As Enactment of Morality Play between Social and Ecological Well‐Being

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