National Network Television News Coverage of Contraception in the Era of the Affordable Care Act [227]

This book examines the role played by American network television in reconfiguring a new “common sense” about race relations during the civil rights revolution. Drawing on stories told both by television news coverage and prime time entertainment, it explores the relationship among the civil rights movement, television, audiences, and partisans on either side of the black empowerment struggle. In particular, it considers the recurring theme that America's racial story was one of color-blind equality grounded on a vision of “black and white together.” The book concludes that television had an ambivalent place in the civil rights revolution. More specifically, it argues that network television sought to represent a rapidly shifting consensus on what “blackness” and “whiteness” meant and how they now fit together. Network television premised equality on a largely white definition whereby African Americans were ready for equal time to the extent that their representations conformed to whitened standards of middle-class and professional respectability.

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The Return of Civil Rights Television

10.5406/illinois/9780252036682.003.0010 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Aniko Bodroghkozy

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Television News ◽

News Coverage ◽

The United States ◽

Network Television ◽

White House ◽

Black And White ◽

Television Shows ◽

Civil Rights Movements ◽

The 1960S

This book has explored how network television mobilized a certain type of image that, when appropriately paired with figures of whiteness, was presumed to make whites less anxious about social change. It has highlighted a common link in these representations of a dignified blackness intertwined with an accommodating and welcoming whiteness. It has considered a number of television shows, including East Side/West Side and Good Times, to emphasize the propensity of networks to tell narratives relating to “black and white together,” the “worthy black victim,” and the aspirational “civil rights subject.” This epilogue examines television news coverage of Barack Obama's historic election as president of the United States. It suggests that networks were returning to the familiar discourse about the civil rights movements during the 1960s as they packaged stories that celebrated black and white voters coming together to put a biracial black man into the White House, to make Americans feel good about their country and its race relations.

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The world of U.S. network television news: Eighteen years of international and foreign news coverage

Gazette (Leiden Netherlands) ◽

10.1177/001654929205000104 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 53-72 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

William J. Gonzenbach ◽

M. David Arant ◽

Robert L. Stevenson

Keyword(s):

Television News ◽

News Coverage ◽

Network Television ◽

The World ◽

Foreign News

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Bias in the News: Network Television News Coverage of the 1972 Election Campaing.C. Richard Hofstetter

American Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1086/226577 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 83 (2) ◽

pp. 503-505

Author(s):

Doris A. Graber

Keyword(s):

Television News ◽

News Coverage ◽

Network Television

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African American online newspapers’ coverage of policy debate on the Affordable Care Act in 2017

Newspaper Research Journal ◽

10.1177/0739532920950046 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 349-367

Author(s):

Masudul Biswas ◽

Nam Young Kim

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Affordable Care Act ◽

News Coverage ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Policy Debate ◽

News Frames ◽

Online Newspapers ◽

Political Contention ◽

The Affordable Care Act

Using content analysis, this study examined the coverage on the repeal and replace efforts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2017 in three African American online newspapers—Afro.Com, AtlantaBlackStar.Com, and PhillyTrib.com. Top three news frames across the news coverage by these online newspapers reflected political contention and political maneuverings around the ACA and potential policy implications of the Republicans’ proposed bills to replace the ACA.

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Southern Projections: Black Television Hosts, Madison Avenue, and Nationalizing the South in 1950s Primetime

Television & New Media ◽

10.1177/1527476420980099 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 152747642098009

Author(s):

Phoebe Bronstein

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

News Coverage ◽

The South ◽

Network Television ◽

Madison Avenue ◽

National Network ◽

Rhetorical Device ◽

Television Content ◽

Harry Belafonte

This article situates Nat King Cole’s NBC experience within those of Hazel Scott and Harry Belafonte, whose own programs bookended the first decade of television. While Scott was blacklisted and her Dumont show canceled, the brief primetime stints of Cole and Belafonte on national network television, reveal a shifting rhetoric surrounding the policing of blackness on TV that focused blame on the South. The South, then, became a convenient rhetorical device in the rejection of Black national television content. This article follows these two parallel yet interlocking threads, with the first section detailing the rise of national television in conversation with the South and the deflection of racism onto the region—an easy representational task amidst news coverage of the civil rights movement. The latter portion of the article follows a genealogy of Black hosted variety programs and Black televisual resistance from Scott to Cole and Belafonte.

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