scholarly journals Self-censorship threatens US press freedom: Fear of costly legal actions is inhibiting the media

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-16
Author(s):  
Robert G. Picard
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media

‘American publishers and broadcasters are increasingly exercising self-censorship to avoid costly litigation’ says the editor of Freedom of Information Digest, giving a pessimistic assessment of the situation Despite a strong tradition of press freedom and (especially since Watergate) increasingly aggressive investigative journalism in the USA, the country's libel laws can inhibit journalists and lead to self-censorship. The authors of the two articles that follow examine the effect of libel legislation on the US press — one from a journalist's, the other a lawyer's point of view.

scholarly journals O OUTRO DO OUTRO: SERENA WILLIAMS E A CONSTRUÇÃO DA IMAGEM DA MULHER NEGRA NA MÍDIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Luciana Miranda Costa ◽  
Raissa Lennon Nascimento Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Woman ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
Racist Discourse ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

O artigo propõe uma análise da charge publicada no jornal australiano Herald Sun, no dia 10 de setembro de 2018, de autoria do cartunista Mark Knight, que ironiza a tenista Serena Williams após perder a final do campeonato Us Open. A reflexão compreende aspectos dos estudos de comunicação, gênero e questões raciais, afim de analisar a construção da imagem da mulher negra na mídia e a repercussão da charge na imprensa brasileira. Concluímos que a ilustração apresenta a atleta de maneira exagerada e grotesca, reforçando o esteriótipo da mulher negra como “raivosa” e “agressiva”. Deste modo, entendemos que a mídia reproduz um discurso dominantemente machista e racista (SODRÉ, 2015) e que a mulher negra é atravessada por uma dupla opressão e, por isso, do ponto de vista social, dificilmente é reconhecida como sujeito, já que representa o outro do branco e o outro do homem (KILOMBA, 2012; RIBEIRO, 2018).   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Comunicação; Mídia, Charge, Mulher Negra; Serena Williams.     ABSTRACT The article proposes an analysis of the cartoon published in the Australian newspaper Herald Sun, on September 10, 2018, by the cartoonist Mark Knight, who mocks the tennis player Serena Williams after losing the final of the Us Open championship. The reflection includes aspects of communication studies, gender and racial issues, in order to analyze the construction of the image of black women in the media and the impact of the cartoon on the Brazilian press. We conclude that the illustration presents the athlete in an exaggerated and grotesque way, reinforcing the stereotype of the black woman as "angry" and "aggressive". In this way, we understand that the media reproduces a dominant sexist and racist discourse (SODRÉ, 2015) and that the black woman is crossed by a double oppression and, from the social point of view, is hardly recognized as a subject, since it represents the other of white and the other of man (KILOMBA, 2012; RIBEIRO, 2018). KEYWORDS: Communication; Media, Charge, Black Woman; Serena Williams.     RESUMEN El artículo propone un análisis de la caricatura publicada en el periódico australiano Herald Sun, el 10 de septiembre de 2018, por el dibujante Mark Knight, que ironiza a la tenista Serena Williams tras perder la final del campeonato del US Open. La reflexión incluye aspectos de estudios de comunicación, género y temas raciales, para analizar la construcción de la imagen de la mujer negra en los medios de comunicación y la repercusión del cargo en la prensa brasileña. Concluimos que la ilustración presenta al atleta de manera exagerada y grotesca, reforzando el estereotipo de la mujer negra como "enojada" y "agresiva". Así, entendemos que los medios de comunicación reproducen un discurso predominantemente machista y racista (SODRÉ, 2015) y que la mujer negra está atravesada por una doble opresión y, por lo tanto, desde el punto de vista social, apenas es reconocida como sujeto, ya que representa al otro del blanco y al otro del hombre (KILOMBA, 2012; RIBEIRO, 2018). PALABRAS CLAVE: Comunicación; Medios de comunicación, Encargada, Mujer negra; Serena Williams.

Readers' Liberation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Rose
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Literary Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Right ◽  
Promotion Campaigns

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimes rival claims of cultural history, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by economic exigency and the severe social attitudes that can follow from it; by technological change that may leave the traditional forms of serious human communication looking merely antiquated. For just these reasons this is the right time for renewal, to start reinvigorated work into the meaning and value of literary reading. For the Internet and digitial generation, the most basic human right is the freedom to read. The Web has indeed brought about a rapid and far-reaching revolution in reading, making a limitless global pool of literature and information available to anyone with a computer. At the same time, however, the threats of censorship, surveillance, and mass manipulation through the media have grown apace. Some of the most important political battles of the twenty-first century have been fought--and will be fought--over the right to read. Will it be adequately protected by constitutional guarantees and freedom of information laws? Or will it be restricted by very wealthy individuals and very powerful institutions? And given increasingly sophisticated methods of publicity and propaganda, how much of what we read can we believe? This book surveys the history of independent sceptical reading, from antiquity to the present. It tells the stories of heroic efforts at self-education by disadvantaged people in all parts of the world. It analyzes successful reading promotion campaigns throughout history (concluding with Oprah Winfrey) and explains why they succeeded. It also explores some disturbing current trends, such as the reported decay of attentive reading, the disappearance of investigative journalism, 'fake news', the growth of censorship, and the pervasive influence of advertisers and publicists on the media--even on scientific publishing. For anyone who uses libraries and Internet to find out what the hell is going on, this book is a guide, an inspiration, and a warning.

The Restructuring of the Automobile Industry in the USA

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 833-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
R D Bingham ◽  
K K Sunmonu
Keyword(s):  
Automobile Industry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cycle Phase ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Mature Phase ◽  
The Us ◽  
Two Systems ◽  
Spatial Configurations ◽  
The Usa

In this paper, the changes in the US automobile industry which have occurred over the 1979–86 economic downturn and recovery are examined within the framework of Markusen's profit-cycle theory. When viewing the automobile indusltry as a whole, some of the findings support the profit-cycle theory and others do not. The theory is supported, however, within the context of two distinct automobile industries in the USA—one ‘Fordist’ and the other a Japanese ‘post-Fordist’ system. The Fordist system is entering the negative profit-cycle phase and the post-Fordist system is in the mature phase. The two systems have very different spatial configurations and are likely to have very different economic futures.

scholarly journals Economic problems and the threat of the Old World: the USA media assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 214-217
Author(s):  
Sergey Olegovich Buranok ◽  
Katerina Vyacheslavovna Belyaeva ◽  
Margarita Igorevna Tulusakova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Red Scare ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media ◽  
Soviet Russia

The paper is dedicated to the evolutionary formation process of the American mass media perception towards the Soviet Russia during the severe Russian famine of 1921-1922, also known as the Povolzhye famine. The research novelty lies in the deep analysis of the US press assessments concerning the famine. The authors provide the results of their American newspapers examination regarding the image formation of the Soviet authorities, the Soviet people and the so-called Red Scare. The authors research included a review of the main anti-Soviet arguments made by the media; the review revealed that the Povolzhye famine image had a crucial role in the labeling Russia as a retrogressive country. Studying this informational phenomenon allows researchers to understand what impact it had on Soviet-American relations, since it directly affected the perception of Russia and the Russian/Soviet people through the media. This, in turn, might help with comprehension of some stereotypes about Russia that can still be encountered in the American public opinion to date.

The Tale of Fabled Creatures

2021 ◽  
pp. 215-233
Author(s):  
M. Nur Erdem
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Physical Beauty

Violence has been a part of daily life in both traditional and digital media. Consequently, neither the existence of violence in the media nor the debates on this subject are new. On the other hand, the presentation of violence in fictional content should be viewed from a different point of view, especially in the context of aesthetization. Within this context, in this chapter, the serial of Penny Dreadful is analyzed. As analyzing method, Tahsin Yücel's model of the “space/time coordinates of narrative” is used. And the subject of “aestheticization of violence” is analyzed through a serial with the elements of person, space, and time. Thus, the role of not only physical beauty but also different components in the aestheticization of violence is examined.

Soccer Players and Their Media-Related Behavior

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Birkner ◽  
Daniel Nölleke
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Sport Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Tabloid Press ◽  
The Relationship

Using the concept of mediatization, in this article, we analyze the relationship between sport and media from a sport-centered perspective. Examining the autobiographies of 14 German and English soccer players, we investigate how athletes use media outlets, what they perceive as the media’s influence and its logic, and—crucially—how this usage and these perceptions affect their own media-related behavior. Our findings demonstrate the important role of the media for the sports systems from the athlete’s point of view and demonstrate the research potential of mediatization as a fruitful concept in studies on sport communication. On the one hand, the sport stars reflect in their autobiographies that their status and income depend on media coverage; and on the other hand, they complain about the omnipresence of the media, especially offside the pitch and feel unfairly treated by the tabloid press, both in England and in Germany.

scholarly journals Transformation of the Latino image in Western culture (based on the analysis of American mass media)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-42
Author(s):  
E. S. Golousova
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Real Life ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media

With rapid development of Latino communities and their members’s active involvement in the US social and political life the attitudes toward Latinos (Hispanics) have changed, both from the outside and the inside. The Latino people themselves came to realize their self-identification and, consecutively, the portrayal of Latinos in the media has been altered. In this paper the author argues, that the range of Latino stereotypes has become wider today and that the model that used to work decades ago in picturing Latino migrants is no longer relevant. Thus, the main goal of the study is to mark out and describe the changes that have occurred in the US media regarding the images of ‘Latinos’ (/Latinas). Comparative analysis is the key method in addition to the content analysis of media publications. The empirical basis consists of 80 publications, including digital media footage, published in 2016-2020 (both in English and Spanish languages) – such as the New York Times, The Time, The Washington Post, El Opinion, etc. These newspapers and magazines are considered to be highly influential as they set the agenda, shape the opinion and affect public consciousness. The material of the study also comprises 20 TV episodes related to the coverage of Hispanic issues in the USA. Having analyzed the media content related to the Latino issue (mainstream media, online sources, TV footage), the author comes to a conclusion that the number of roles that are attributed to the Latinos/Latinas has increased significantly and the today’s narrative to a larger degree is aligned with the changes occurring in real life of the Latino community.

scholarly journals THE PORTRAIT OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN IN MARGARET MITCHELL'S NOVEL "GONE WITH THE WIND"

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1749-1753
Author(s):  
Lirije Ameti
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gone With The Wind ◽  
Woman Character ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Artistic Achievement ◽  
History Of

This theme, The Portrait of the American Woman in Margaret Mitchell's Novel " Gone With The Wind " is broad, challenging, interesting and among many contradictory to one another's point of view, at different social grounds , periods of time simply or merely of the fact that a female writer of this tremendous saga read mostly by women represents multi dimensional themes. It is an interweave of tradition, history , war, social classes, Reconstruction, transition and more. All these and many other themes written with a masterful disciplined imagination put in the longest novel in history. A masterpiece of 1037 pages published in 1939 and subsequently in the greatest and longest motion picture on screen. Piling up records and building it's own history and legends. The novel has sold in more than 25 million copies in at least 27 languages in thirty countries and in more than 185 editions according to the research conducted in 2004. These figures continue to increase, not to mention that the film is seen by more individuals than the total population of the USA. GWTW has grown and conflated into a phenomenon of American and later into a phenomenon of levels of basic appreciation after international popular culture. Thus criticism was attested at the levels of basic appreciation , often in the opposite poles of love and /or hate , the evaluation again in bipolar terms of praise and / or scorn. On the popular level the book was lauded and in the literary world it was defamed. Mitchell's novel " Gone With The Wind " was seen as important symbols of American culture forces. A serious biography in 1965 sparked reconsiderations simply by the assumption of Mitchell's importance as a writer. Other re- evaluations followed which asserted the literary quality of the work, notably in feminist terms. Attesting the qualities that critics wrote such as Michener who said: " The spiritual history of a region". Many other scholarly papers have been undertaken to attack it and completed to praise it. Because of the enormous popularity , readability , embodiment of the heroine woman character Scarlett O'Hara with many other women who saw themselves in those situations or experienced the same then or even nowadays. These multi themes to discuss about, issues primarily of women, the novel is defined as a woman's literary artistic achievement, seen through the eyes off a woman Scarlett herself and many other women characters. Is seen the distinction of the past and present of the old and new society. Mitchell herself says it is about courage and gumption to change as a necessity in order to survive war, reconstruction and transition. The search of survival by poor and nearly defeated young women who had no control or capacity to understand these tensions. Indeed this novel has become an icon of the US culture.

scholarly journals Victory for press freedom

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 7-8
Author(s):  
Joseph Maliakan ◽  
Lek Hor Tan
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
National Debate ◽  
Lower House ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media

Last month, following nationwide protests from journalists, editors and publishers, the Indian government withdrew its controversial Defamation Bill and announced that a national debate on the defamation issue would be intiated. The government's decision, announced by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at the end of September, was greeted with jubilation by members of the press and public. The Bill, which would have considerably weakened the position of defendants in defamation cases, had been introduced into the Lok Sabha (the lower house of Parliament) on 29 August without any prior consultation with the press, and was passed next day with very little debate. The haste with which the Bill was passed was widely seen as the government's latest attempt to impose censorship on the media, especially on investigative journalism. Here a journalist on the Indian Express and lndex's Asia specialist look at the Bill and the controversy it provoked.

scholarly journals Physicochemical and Sensory Assessments in Spain and United States of PGI-Certified Ternera de Navarra vs. Certified Angus Beef

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1474
Author(s):  
María José Beriain ◽  
María T. Murillo-Arbizu ◽  
Kizkitza Insausti ◽  
Francisco C. Ibañez ◽  
Christine Leick Cord ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shear Force ◽  
The Other ◽  
Product Knowledge ◽  
Percentage Content ◽  
Beef Flavor ◽  
The Us ◽  
Sensory Attribute ◽  
Moisture Percentage ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Certified Angus Beef

The physicochemical and sensory differences between the PGI-Certified Ternera de Navarra (CTNA) (Spanish origin) and Certified Angus Beef (CAB) (US origin) were assessed in Spain and the USA. To characterize the carcasses, the ribeye areas (REAs), and marbling levels were assessed in both testing places. Twenty striploins per certified beef program were used as study samples. For sensory analysis, the striploins were vacuum packaged and aged for 7 days at 4 °C and 85% RH in each corresponding laboratory. Thereafter, the samples were half cut and frozen. One of the halves was shipped to the other counterpart-testing place. The fat and moisture percentage content, Warner Bratzler Shear Force (WBSF), and total and soluble collagen were tested for all the samples. The CAB carcasses had smaller REAs (p < 0.0001) and exhibited higher marbling levels (p < 0.0001). The CAB striploins had a higher fat content (p < 0.0001) and required lower WBSF (p < 0.05) than the CTNA samples. Trained panelists rated the CAB samples as juicer (p < 0.001), more tender/less tough (p < 0.0001), and more flavorful (p < 0.0001) than the CTNA counterparts. This study shows that beef from both countries had medium-high tenderness, juiciness, and beef flavor scores and very low off-flavor scores. Relevant differences found between the ratings assigned by the Spanish and the US panelists suggest training differences, or difficulties encountered in using the appropriate terminology for defining each sensory attribute. Furthermore, the lack of product knowledge (i.e., consumption habits) may have been another reason for such differences, despite the blind sensory evaluation.

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