Manufacturing Consent in Venezuela: Media Misreporting of a Country, 1998–2014

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-290
Author(s):  
Alan MacLeod
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Propaganda Model ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Uk

This article assesses Western news media coverage of Venezuela between 1998 and 2014. It found that the major newspapers in the UK and US reproduce the ideology of Western governments, ignoring strong empirical evidence challenging those positions. The press portrayed Venezuela in an overwhelmingly negative light, presenting highly contested minority opinions as facts while barely mentioning competing arguments, as Herman and Chomsky’s (2002) propaganda model would predict. After conducting interviews, it is clear that a small cadre of pre-selected journalists is immersed into a highly antagonistic newsroom culture that sees itself as the “resistance” to the Venezuelan government and its purpose to defeat it. As a result, hegemony of thought reigns and some journalists report self-censorship.

Looking over the channel: The balance of media coverage about the “refugee crisis” in Germany and the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Maurer ◽  
Jörg Haßler ◽  
Simon Kruschinski ◽  
Pablo Jost
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
British Government ◽  
News Value ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This study compares the balance of newspaper and television news coverage about migration in two countries that were differently affected by the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015 in terms of the geopolitical involvement and numbers of migrants being admitted. Based on a broad consensus among political elites, Germany left its borders open and received about one million migrants mainly from Syria during 2015. In contrast, the conservative British government was heavily attacked by oppositional parties for closing Britain’s borders and, thus, restricting immigration. These different initial situations led to remarkable differences between the news coverage in both countries. In line with news value theory, German media outlets reported much more on migration than did their British counterparts. In line with indexing theory, German news coverage consonantly reflected the consensual view of German political elites, while British news media reported along their general editorial lines.

scholarly journals Diversity in the News? A Study of Interest Groups in the Media in the UK, Spain and Denmark

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz ◽  
Laura Chaqués Bonafont ◽  
Darren R. Halpin
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Extensive Coverage ◽  
Citizen Groups ◽  
Country Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Uk

This article provides the first systematic cross-country analysis of interest group appearances in the news media. The analysis included three countries – the UK, Spain and Denmark – each representing one of Hallin and Mancini’s1three overall models of media and politics: the liberal system, the polarized pluralist system and the democratic corporatist system. It finds important similarities across countries with high levels of concentration in media coverage of groups, more extensive coverage of economic groups than citizen groups, and differential patterns of group appearances across policy areas and between right- and left-leaning papers. It also identifies country variation, with the highest degree of concentration among group appearances in Spanish newspapers and the most attention to economic groups in Danish newspapers.

Is More News Good News? Media Coverage of CEOs, Firm Value, and Rent Extraction

2015 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 1550020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bang Dang Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Good News ◽  
Rent Extraction ◽  
Tobin's Q ◽  
Econometric Methods ◽  
Abnormal Stock Returns

This paper provides empirical evidence that media coverage of CEOs, a channel of investor recognition, significantly increases firm value, measured by Tobin’s q. The result is robust to alternative econometric methods and checks of causality. Firms with the highest level of CEO media coverage and positive coverage outperform those with the lowest levels by 8% and 7% per year, respectively, in abnormal stock returns. Media coverage also impacts CEO rent extraction through compensation. Subsequent total pay rise is 4.1% above and beyond what CEOs obtain from the increase in firm value that arises due to media coverage.

scholarly journals Brexit, the Press and the Territorial Constitution

2020 ◽  
pp. 096466392092192
Author(s):  
Gregory Davies ◽  
Daniel Wincott
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Uk

Brexit has unveiled previously hidden aspects of United Kingdom (UK) society, law and politics. It provides a valuable opportunity to investigate the social reception of law, and in particular the mediation of the law and constitution in the press. The distinctive constitutional arrangements and histories of Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England have given rise to different territorial interpretations of the UK state. These asymmetries have parallels in the UK’s territorial media landscape, yet we have little understanding of how this landscape contributes to constitutional discourses. This article offers quantitative content and thematic analysis of UK-wide media coverage of major court judgments which have served as critical junctures in the Brexit process. The analysis reveals striking territorial variation in the volume and substance of coverage. Here, the media appears to reinforce divergent understandings of the constitution: while English reporting chimed with a more unitary account of the constitution, reporting elsewhere was more consistent with a vision of the UK as union-state. In the light of these findings, we argue that media analysis can make a valuable contribution to our understanding of the law and the constitution.

scholarly journals The language of suffering: Media discourse and public attitudes towards the MH17 air tragedy in Malaysia and the UK

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 562-580
Author(s):  
Theng Theng Ong ◽  
Robert M. McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The West ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Malaysian Airlines

‘If it bleeds, it leads’, events characterised by fatalities, are likely to attract high levels of media coverage. This study adopts a multidisciplinary approach to investigate public discourses on the MH17 tragedy in Malaysia and the United Kingdom. First, corpus-based discourse analysis was employed to explore the construction of the Malaysian Airlines tragedy MH17 in four selected Malaysian and British newspapers. In addition, an attitudinal study examining 50 Malaysian and 50 UK nationals’ perceptions of the tragedy was conducted. Keywords analysis revealed an overall tendency for the news media to construct the air tragedy through classifications between ‘us’ and ‘others’. Specifically, important ‘Us’ (Malaysian elites) and non-important ‘Other’ (non-Malaysian) in the Malaysian newspapers, versus good ‘Us’ (the West) and evil ‘Others’ (Russia) in the British newspapers. The attitudinal analysis shows, for both the Malaysian and the UK respondents, the most salient associations with the MH17 tragedy related to ‘ conflicts’.

scholarly journals Why psychiatry should engage with the media

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Bithell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
General Medicine ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Source Of Information

SummaryPsychiatry receives less media coverage than general medicine, and the coverage it does receive is four times as likely to be negatively framed. In addition, coverage of mental health problems is often negative in tone and mental health research tends to be underrepresented in the media. As the media is likely to be a key source of information for the general public about mental health and psychiatry, this is worrying. There are opportunities, however, to change this landscape; the UK national news media are keen to cover more stories about mental health problems and to feature more psychiatrists' comments in their coverage. By engaging with the media, psychiatrists have the chance to create better-informed media narrative.

scholarly journals News media representation on EU immigration before Brexit: the ‘Euro-Ripper’ case

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Martins
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Criminal Convictions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Relationship Of

AbstractA higher level of mobility of people has marked the European Union (EU), with immigrants moving from one place to another, every year, looking for a better quality of life, often fleeing from war and poverty. In the wake of enlargement of the European Union, the United Kingdom (UK) experienced high inward migration. One of the main focuses of UK media coverage was immigration from Eastern European countries. The UK referendum on Brexit on 23 June 2016, was followed by an increase in hate crimes linked to migration issues and, subsequently, a media apparatus of toxic discourse and fear of the criminal ‘Other’. This paper aims to reveal how newspaper articles and personal comments written in response to these articles, represented creative and media-driven anxieties about ‘opening’ borders in the EU. The empirical sample builds on news media coverage of the ‘Euro-Ripper’ case, published in two UK newspapers—the Daily Mail and The Independent. Based on critical surveillance studies and cultural media studies, I elaborate on the notion of moral panic, dramatised by the media, which mobilises specific compositions of ‘otherness’ by constructing suspicion and criminalising inequality by particular social and ethnic groups and nationalities. I argue that the media portrays the dramatisation of transnational narratives of risk and (in)security, which redraws territorial borders and (re)define Britain’s global identity. The analysis shows how the news media in the Brexit vote continually raised and legitimised awareness related to the migration as a vehicle that enables the ‘folk-devil’ to cross borders. This context postulates an ideology that converges on a relationship of intransigence and criminal convictions, in the context of a politics of inclusion and exclusion. I conclude by emphasising how the media intersects different social and geographical spaces in which migration takes place. Media-constructed categories of suspicion targets have been previously created and ‘suspect communities’ have already been socially accepted, thereby confirming and reshaping understandings of their identities and communities.

scholarly journals #MeToo, popular feminism and the news : A content analysis of UK newspaper coverage

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 718-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara De Benedictis ◽  
Shani Orgad ◽  
Catherine Rottenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Predominately White ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Popular Feminism

This article examines the first 6 months of #MeToo’s coverage in the UK press, revealing how newspapers played an important role in heightening the campaign’s visibility. Using content analysis, our study demonstrates that the press contributed to expanding and reinforcing #MeToo’s visibility in important ways. In terms of reach, the UK press has expanded the movement’s visibility beyond social media, addressing potentially new and different readerships. This attests to the pivotal role that news media continue to play in disseminating global issues and debates for a national audience. Second, in terms of content, while the news coverage developed and consolidated stories that were originally revealed on social media, it also publicized new stories. However, our study also highlights how the press’ role in enabling and expanding the visibility of #MeToo has been characterized by a number of crucial and, we argue, problematic factors. First, while #MeToo was covered positively in all newspapers, there was significant variation within newspapers, which was largely consistent with their traditional ideological alignments. Second, the #MeToo coverage seems to have followed and reinforced familiar patterns with respect to news coverage of both sexual violence and feminism, namely, support of feminism alongside a concurrent de-politicization, an individualizing tendency through a focus on celebrity and the cultural industries, and the centring of the experiences of celebrity female subjects who are predominately White and wealthy.

scholarly journals The Case of Geert Wilders: Multiculturalism, Islam, and Identity in the UK

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Poole
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Far Right ◽  
The Public ◽  
Racial Hatred ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Political Groups

This article aims to show how in the current political climate in the UK debates about multiculturalism, religion, and identity, in relation to Muslims, have played out in the public sphere through an examination of British news media coverage of the Geert Wilders case. Wilders, a far right Dutch MP, was refused entry to the UK in February 2009 for inciting racial hatred. Coverage of this event demonstrates the struggles around identity taking place amongst various social, political groups in the UK. I will show how Islam, in particular, is currently central to these discursive debates and how different groups’ interpretations of the event attempt to assert ideas of ‘Britain’ and ‘Britishness.’

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