Separated by a common language: How Breitbart and The New York Times produce different meanings from common words

We build on the work by Peled and Bonotti to illuminate the impact of linguistic relativity on democratic debate. Peled and Bonotti’s focus is on multilingual societies, and their worry is that ‘unconscious epistemic effects’ can undermine political reasoning between interlocutors who do not share the same native tongue. Our article makes two contributions. First, we argue that Peled and Bonotti’s concerns about linguistic relativity are just as relevant to monolingual discourse. We use machine learning to provide novel evidence of the linguistic discrepancies between two ideologically distant groups that speak the same language: readers of Breitbart and of The New York Times. We suggest that intralinguistic relativity can be at least as harmful to successful public deliberation and political negotiation as interlinguistic relativity. Second, we endorse the building of metalinguistic awareness to address problematic kinds of linguistic relativity and argue that the method of discourse analysis we use in this article is a good way to build that awareness.

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From Afghanistan to Chechnya: News Coverage by Izvestia and the New York Times

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly ◽

10.1177/107769900007700104 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 77 (1) ◽

pp. 37-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Olga V. Malinkina ◽

Douglas M. McLeod

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

News Coverage ◽

New York Times ◽

The United States ◽

The New York Times ◽

Media System ◽

Russian Media ◽

The Media ◽

The Cold War ◽

The Impact

This study analyzed newspaper coverage of conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya by the New York Times and the Russian newspaper Izvestia to examine the impact of political change on news coverage. The Soviet Union's dissolution included dramatic changes to the Russian media system. In addition, the dissipation of the Cold War changed the foreign policy of the United States. A content analysis revealed that the changes to the media system in Russia had a profound impact on Izvestia's coverage, but political changes had little impact on the New York Times' coverage.

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Investigating status hierarchies with media analysis: Muslims, Jews, and Catholics in The New York Times and The Guardian headlines, 1985–2014

International Journal of Comparative Sociology ◽

10.1177/0020715218775142 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 59 (3) ◽

pp. 239-257 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Erik Bleich ◽

Hasher Nisar ◽

Cara Vazquez

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Research Agenda ◽

New York Times ◽

Media Analysis ◽

The New York Times ◽

Media Portrayals ◽

Time Period ◽

Highly Sensitive ◽

The Guardian ◽

The Impact

Media analyses can help expand our understanding of how hierarchies are expressed and of how they evolve across time and place. In this article, we compare coverage of Muslims, Jews, and Catholics in The New York Times and The Guardian headlines over a 30-year time period. In aggregate, our data show that media portrayals of groups are relatively stable over the span of decades rather than highly sensitive to the impact of events at any given point in time. In keeping with the findings of surveys, Muslims are generally associated with more negativity than Catholics or Jews. At the same time, our data also reveal information that nuances what traditional surveys have shown. For example, Jews are portrayed consistently more positively than Catholics in our analysis; in addition, while headlines about Catholics are more positive than those about Muslims in The New York Times, the tone of headlines about the two groups is indistinguishable in The Guardian. The methods and the findings introduced here contribute to the research agenda of scholars concerned with identifying, tracking, and understanding status hierarchies.

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Media Ownership and Bias: Evidence by the Washington Post’s Reporting after Amazon’s Acquisition in 2013

Modern Economics & Management Forum ◽

10.32629/memf.v1i3.198 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Tongyi Jin ◽

Altynay Abilgaziyeva ◽

Tsz Ting Lam

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Media Coverage ◽

New York Times ◽

Washington Post ◽

Media Ownership ◽

Difference In Differences ◽

The New York Times ◽

Publication Time ◽

The Difference ◽

The Impact

This study examines the impact of ownership change on media coverage by investigating the impact of Jeff Bezos's (Amazon's owner) purchase of the Washington Post (WP) in October 2013. We collect all articles that have Amazon mentions published by WP and the New York Times (NYT) for 12 months before and 12 months after the acquisition. Then, we use the difference-in-differences method to compare changes in sentiment, length, and time of publication of the articles reported by WP compared to NYT. From the comparison, we show that Amazon's acquisition has posed a certain extent of influence on the publication time of the articles. Our findings highlight that ownership change limits the media's ability to fulfill its role as a watchdog without interference.

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Hamid Karzai vs. the New York Times

Your Country, Our War ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190879402.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Katherine A. Brown

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

News Media ◽

International Politics ◽

New York Times ◽

International Affairs ◽

The New York Times ◽

The Impact ◽

The U.S

This chapter acquaints the reader with the impact of the U.S. and Western news media in Afghanistan by telling the story of how President Hamid Karzai banished New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg in August 2014, during the final weeks of his presidency. The chapter uses this story to illustrate the perceived hegemony that U.S. news has in international affairs by foreign actors. A country’s news media create and maintain a nation, employing common symbols and language and constructing narratives that resonate with the country’s citizens. Journalists intend to be observers of international politics, but unintentionally they are its participants. The chapter explains how news and nationalism intersect with international politics and introduces the reader to the groundbreaking yet nascent community of Afghan journalists who saw American and other Western journalists as their professional guides.

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Examining augmented reality in journalism: Presence, knowledge gain, and perceived visual authenticity

New Media & Society ◽

10.1177/1461444820951925 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 146144482095192

Author(s):

Tanja Aitamurto ◽

Laura Aymerich-Franch ◽

Jorge Saldivar ◽

Catherine Kircos ◽

Yasamin Sadeghi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Experimental Design ◽

Augmented Reality ◽

Mobile Phone ◽

New York Times ◽

The Other ◽

Knowledge Gain ◽

The New York Times ◽

Physical Presence ◽

The Impact

This article examines the impact of augmented reality (AR) visualizations on users’ sense of physical presence, knowledge gain, and perceptions of the authenticity of journalistic visuals. In a mixed experimental design, 79 participants were randomly assigned to view three The New York Times articles on a mobile phone featuring one of three viewing modalities: (1) AR visualizations, (2) interactive (non-AR) visualizations, or (3) non-interactive, static visualizations. AR induced a greater sense of physical presence compared to the other modalities. The findings suggest that immersive properties of AR can contribute to journalism’s goal of engaging the audience. However, AR was not a superior medium for informing the participants, and the viewing modality did not have an effect on the perceived authenticity of the visuals. The findings indicate a need for more efficient ways to relay information through journalistic AR visualizations while keeping the user engaged in an immersive experience.

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Siegfried’s Death

10.7591/cornell/9781501754593.003.0008 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 182-197

Author(s):

Jay Lockenour

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York Times ◽

Great War ◽

National Socialist ◽

The New York Times ◽

Historical Significance ◽

The Times ◽

The Many ◽

The Impact ◽

The Great War

This chapter recounts the many legends surrounding former general Erich Ludendorff following his death. Headline after headline praised the Feldherr of the Great War. The chapter discusses the stories of Liège and Tannenberg in some detail and the coverage of his dismissal as the first quartermaster general in 1918, which reinforced the “stab in the back” legend that Ludendorff had originated. It explores his connection with Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), as well as Ludendorff’s historical significance. The chapter also analyses the coverage of foreign papers, such as The Manchester Guardian, The Times, The New York Times, the Paris Journal and Italian papers following Ludendorff’s death and the Feldherr’s willpower and energy at all stages of his life. Ultimately, the chapter assesses the impact of Ludendorff’s demise on the surviving members of the House of Ludendorff.

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