Newspapers and national identity: the BSE/CJD crisis and the British press

Brookes, R. H.

doi:10.1177/016344399021002007

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“…"Ordinary people" interviewed by journalists serve the purpose of keeping fear alive by giving first hand evidence of scary situations. The main theme is often accompanied by satellite topics selected for their potential to build up the atmosphere of alarm (van Dijk 1988;Fowler 1991: 146-207;Brookes 1999;Cohen 2002;Marsh and Melville 2011;Howarth, 2013). The articles were closeread for the presence of journalistic tactics fitting this description.…”

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Racist and neo-Nazi panic in the Euro 2012 coverage by the British press: a discursive failure in interculturalism

Wawrzyczek¹

2017

Brno Studies in English

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The article demonstrates how the discursive strategies of sport reporting by the media may collide with the vision of sport as a means of promoting intercultural understanding, a generally anticipated cultural effect of mega sport events. This is done by a critical discourse reading of 35 news articles that appeared across the British national press in May and June 2012, directly before the opening of the 14 th UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2012) jointly hosted by Poland and Ukraine. Influenced by a BBC television documentary and linked by the central topic of the two countries as strongholds of racism, xenophobia and vicious hooliganism, these articles constitute an instance of a moral panic. A discussion of the panic as a mode of discourse leads to the conclusion that the priorities and practices of British newspaper journalism acted against the culturally integrating potential of Euro 2012.

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Racist and neo-Nazi panic in the Euro 2012 coverage by the British press: a discursive failure in interculturalism

Wawrzyczek¹

2017

Brno Studies in English

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“…In Britain, the faces of the issue reportedly changed over time, shifting from a non-human issue to a threat to humans and then a health crisis and an industrial scare with serious economic effects (Brookes, 1999). In Canada, the economic impacts of BSE were the primary focus of media coverage, whereas health risk concerns had little coverage (Boyd, Jardine, & Driedger, 2009).…”

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Newspaper Reports on BSE around the Time of the Japan-US Trade Conflicts: Content Analysis of Japanese and US Dailies from 2002 to 2006

Sato¹,

Campbell²

2014

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Mass media can affect how people understand and react to particular health risks. Reporting of health risks during the international trade disputes, resulting from the difference in safety regulations, therefore can play a pivotal role in resolving them. This study compared the newspaper reports on BSE-related events in major national dailies between Japan and the US around the period when BSE-infected cattle were discovered in the US and the import of US beef products was banned (between December 2002 and November 2006). During the study period, the number of BSE-related newspaper articles increased in both the US and Japan, but the visibility of the issue was more prominent and persistent in Japan than in the US. Geographically, most of the articles had a domestic focus, but they also reported the news of each trade partner. After the discovery of BSE cattle in the US, articles of commerce and trade issues were dominant in Japan, while the incidence of BSE, agriculture, and trade dominated in the US. Overall, the US-based newspapers carried more advocacy articles than the Japanese ones. In Japan, calls for stronger domestic policy decreased, but those for stronger foreign policy increased slightly. Meanwhile, in the US, calls for a stronger domestic policy increased slightly whereas those for weaker foreign policy dropped-both only temporarily. The major rationale for policy advocacy was the economy and health in both Japan and the US. However, the balance of competing policy objectives and the rational acceptance of BSE risks were argued more in the US papers than in the Japanese ones. In conclusion, during the BSE-related dispute on health and trade, the visibility and faces of the issues in newspapers differed between Japan and the US. Acceptance of BSE-related risks was argued differently, and those differences reflected and affected the public's perception of BSE issues, the related safety policies by the governments, and the configuration of social interests in each country. The differ-* Corresponding author.H. Sato, R. G. Campbell 21 ences evident in the media could serve as a vehicle for reappraising the existing policies as well as the possible international harmonization of risk management policies.

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“…Of the remaining 42 studies, 10 explicitly brought (at least) two disciplinary perspectives together. Social scientists, particularly those from a constructionist perspective, were interested in media and regulatory policy issues, and were particularly attracted to the high profile subjects of BSE, GM foods and HIV/AIDS, (eg Brookes, 1999;Cummins, 2002;de Vries, van den Berg, and de Jong-van den Berg, 1998;European Parliament, 1998;Goodman and Du Puis, 2002;Jones, 1992;Lupton, 1994;Powell and Leiss, 1997;Tacke, 2001;Whiteside, 2003). …”

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Health scares: Professional priorities

Hooker

2010

Health (London)

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Currently, many health scholars are concerned about health scares. But what do they mean by the term 'health scare' -are health scares an identifiable phenomenon, and how do we currently understand their causation and consequences? By collecting and analyzing published articles about events considered to be health scares, this paper maps the current views of scholars on their characteristics and causes. Results show that health scares are generally understood as events characterized by fears of catastrophic consequences but little actual mortality. However, the social and economic impacts of these events have often been severe. This survey shows that health scares can be usefully sorted into 6 categories, each with identifiable internal dynamics, suggesting different communications strategies to achieve resolution in each category. Using the social amplification of risk framework, the conditions under which risk signals were amplified were traced in general terms among major stakeholders. Simple causes for health scare events could not be identified, though some triggers did emerge. Importantly, public ignorance of real risk, media scaremongering, and political inaction could be dismissed as primary explanations, though they were sometimes factors in scare events. Implications for risk communication and for future research on risk and public health are discussed. Keywords:Health scare, Social amplification of risk, Expert, Media, Risk controversyIn the age of SARS and 'mad cow' (BSE -bovine spongiform encephalitis) disease, many health professionals in both government and academe worry about what they refer to as 'health scares'. Exactly what these are is, however, unclear. Are they small risks falsely judged as large, as were fluoride additives to water -or alternatively a form of 'health panic' (Moynihan, Heath, and Henry, 2002;Rail and Beausoleil, 2003) or moral panic (Ungar, 2001, McRobbie andThornton, 1995)? The colloquialism seems often to be an umbrella term for a raft of different concerns: sometimes of governments meeting public demands to spend vast sums on protections against negligible risks, and yet at other times of government failure to commit 2 sufficient resources to protect against others risks; of panicky public reactions to media beatups, and yet also of public ignorance of highly damaging risks; of the failure to identify and control the pandemic of influenza feared to be coming, and simultaneously that planning for it will end up costing more than we wish it to in terms of lost revenue, or public mistrust or complacency, or the shunning of particular cultural groups. In particular there are concerns about the enormous political and economic costs of certain scare situations, so disproportionate do they seem when compared to the actual mortality attributable to, for example, SARS or anthrax or 'new variant' Creuzfeld-Jakob disease (nvCJD) (Skinner, 2004).The first aim of this paper is to use the extant literature to work out what scholars mean by the term 'health scare'. Because ther...

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Newspapers and national identity: the BSE/CJD crisis and the British press

Cited by 74 publications

References 11 publications

Racist and neo-Nazi panic in the Euro 2012 coverage by the British press: a discursive failure in interculturalism

Racist and neo-Nazi panic in the Euro 2012 coverage by the British press: a discursive failure in interculturalism

Newspaper Reports on BSE around the Time of the Japan-US Trade Conflicts: Content Analysis of Japanese and US Dailies from 2002 to 2006

Health scares: Professional priorities

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