The Social Production of News

Hall, Stuart; Critcher, Chas; Jefferson, Tony; Clarke, John; Roberts, B. C.

doi:10.1007/978-1-137-00721-6_4

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“…Within this framework, welfare 'benefits' have become increasingly suspect -even to the point of being posited, as we have seen, as a cause of immoral behaviours. As Conservative politicians attempted to link the Philpott case to their party's 'welfare reform' agenda, the conservative press could be argued to have played a vital role as 'secondary definers' (Hall et al 1978), framing Philpott's crime as a peculiar act of evil and thereby eliding discussion of underlying social causes and serving to reinforce the government's welfare reduction agenda.…”

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Framing the Philpotts: Anti-welfarism and the British newspaper reporting of the Derby house fire verdict

Harper¹

2014

International Journal of Media &Amp; Cultural Politics

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This article analyses the newspaper reporting of the Mick Philpott manslaughter verdict of 2013. Philpott is an unemployed British man who in May 2012 set fire to his house, accidentally killing six children. This article argues that the Philpott verdict provided a valuable propaganda opportunity for British politicians and elements of the British media to link the crime to ‘welfare reform’ at a time when the coalition government had begun to target welfare benefits for cuts. In particular, it is argued that the demonization of Philpott as a member of the white British underclass converged with an intensification of conservative and anti-welfarist arguments about the United Kingdom’s benefits system, reviving and reinforcing the Victorian concept of the ‘undeserving poor’ and the related notion that benefits are a reward for good behaviour rather than a right. Examining articles from national newspapers published in the days following the announcement of a guilty verdict in the trial, this article analyses the discursive framing of the stories in order to discover what kind of ideological messages were at work in the reporting of the Philpott verdict and what sorts of differences existed between these messages. The article concludes with an attempt to set this analysis in a wider socio-political context, considering how the press’s perspectives on the story relate to the ideological (re)framing of public discussion about welfare ‘benefits’ and claimants in the United Kingdom today.

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Framing the Philpotts: Anti-welfarism and the British newspaper reporting of the Derby house fire verdict

Harper¹

2014

International Journal of Media &Amp; Cultural Politics

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“…Whereas Golding and Elliott (2010) claimed that news reproduces and perpetuates ideology, Hall, Critcher, Jefferson, Clarke, and Roberts (2010) asserted that the media are ideology. This is a grand statement that can be extended to racism in the media.…”

Section: Race(ism) In the Mediamentioning

confidence: 96%

Anti-racist White Hero, the Sequel: Intersections of Race(ism), Gender, and Social Justice

McFarlane¹

2015

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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In 1999, Kelly Madison identified and assessed the "anti-racist-white-hero" (ARWH) film genre, describing how it sustains systemic racism even as it purports to expose and eradicate it. In this paper, I examine the film The Help in order to assess whether and how it evinces rhetorical strategies similar to or different from those identified by Madison. I argue that although the film accomplishes the same ends as the ARWH genre, it does so in notably distinctive ways, especially to the extent that representations of race and racism intersect with those of gender.

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“…Esse tipo de fonte oficial, que condiciona a ocorrência de um tipo de matéria, inevitavelmente sobredeterminada pela "versão oficial" (HALL, 1978), está presente em todo o jornalismo, mas no de tipo policial ela é a tônica. Comuns a todos esses programas, combinados de diversas formas, estão elementos como o comentário indignado sobre as notícias, a abertura para "denúncias" de telespectadores, o tratamento da vida de celebridades, o humor considerado bufão pelo jornalismo culturalmente dominante, a exibição de imagens das cenas dos crimes e, permeando tudo isso, o moralismo no tratamento das ações "transgressoras", sejam estas os atos criminosos propriamente ditos, sejam os comportamentos de celebridades, ou mesmo o julgamento de ações do poder público tidas por imorais.…”

Section: Telejornalismo Policialunclassified

Gosto E Classe Social No Interior Da Indústria Cultural Brasileira: O Caso Do Telejornalismo Policial

Ribeiro

2018

CSOnline

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Este trabalho investiga em que medida a noção de “jornalismo popular”, corrente no interior do campo jornalístico brasileiro (seja em sua parcela acadêmica, seja na vertente “profissional”), está vinculada à percepção que esses produtores midiáticos, de maneira mais ou menos consciente, têm das recentes transformações na composição da estrutura de classes no país. Para alcançar esse objetivo, parte da análise específica do telejornalismo policial enquanto gênero midiático tipicamente classificado dentro da categoria “jornalismo popular”.

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The Social Production of News

Cited by 22 publications

References 5 publications

Framing the Philpotts: Anti-welfarism and the British newspaper reporting of the Derby house fire verdict

Framing the Philpotts: Anti-welfarism and the British newspaper reporting of the Derby house fire verdict

Anti-racist White Hero, the Sequel: Intersections of Race(ism), Gender, and Social Justice

Gosto E Classe Social No Interior Da Indústria Cultural Brasileira: O Caso Do Telejornalismo Policial

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