An ‘existential threat’ or a ‘past pariah’: Securitisation of Iran and disagreements among American press

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-252
Author(s):  
Forough Amin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Constitutive Function ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Argumentative Strategies ◽  
The Wall Street Journal

The goal I pursue in this study is to explain the constitutive function of the newspapers’ opinion discourses from the perspective of securitisation theory. I discuss how the opinion articles and editorial collected from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and New York Post constructed the social reality (the Iran nuclear programme and deal) differently, as a result of their differing political ideologies, and sought to influence American foreign policy in line with their interests. Integrating securitisation theory with CDS, I investigated three types of discursive strategies ( representational, dialogical and argumentative strategies) employed by these articles and discussed their contribution to the construction of elements of securitisation. The findings showed that American newspapers’ commentary articles systematically securitised Iran (but sometimes desecuritised its nuclear programme).1

BALANCE OF OPINION IN NEWSPAPERS THROUGH EDITORIAL AND OP-ED GENRES

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (105) ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
EKATERINA A. NIKONOVA
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
White House ◽  
The Wall Street Journal

The article deals with the analysis of the balance of opinion in the newspaper, which is originally realized through editorial and op-ed genres. We analyzed 20 articles from “The Wall Street Journal” and “The New York Times” in the genres of editorial and op-ed about events in Afghanistan in August 2021, which were interpreted differently in mass media due to the role of the White House. The findings prove that in the context of new digital reality the op-ed has lost its original function of conveying alternative positions to the ones stated in the editorial; at the same time newspapers tend to advocate the positions shared by the political parties they have historically developed close relations with: “The Wall Street Journal” - with the Republican Party, “The New York Times” - the Democratic Party.

scholarly journals Polarizing news? Representations of threat and efficacy in leading US newspapers’ coverage of climate change

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Feldman ◽  
P. Sol Hart ◽  
Tijana Milosevic
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
The Wall Street Journal

This study examines non-editorial news coverage in leading US newspapers as a source of ideological differences on climate change. A quantitative content analysis compared how the threat of climate change and efficacy for actions to address it were represented in climate change coverage across The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today between 2006 and 2011. Results show that The Wall Street Journal was least likely to discuss the impacts of and threat posed by climate change and most likely to include negative efficacy information and use conflict and negative economic framing when discussing actions to address climate change. The inclusion of positive efficacy information was similar across newspapers. Also, across all newspapers, climate impacts and actions to address climate change were more likely to be discussed separately than together in the same article. Implications for public engagement and ideological polarization are discussed.

eSports as a News Specialty Gold Rush

2021 ◽  
pp. 303-320
Author(s):  
Gregory P. Perreault ◽  
Mildred F. Perreault
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
Business Journalism

The news coverage of eSports presents an attractive avenue to a new audience for business, sports, and gaming journalists. The audience's interest is understandable given the financial vibrancy of the hobby. This chapter reflects an analysis of news articles (n=406) published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, and Business Insider from January 2018 to December 2020. Researchers analyzed these articles for specific marketing and public relations messages and identified how various entertainment businesses were reflected in the news coverage of eSports. This chapter argues that eSports represents a topic typically covered through lifestyle journalism that has instead been dominated by traditional business reporting. Both gaming and sports are predominantly lifestyle specialties—hence, the dominant role of business journalism in reporting the specialty means that the emphasis on the niche has primarily been on awards and financing.

The political implications of epigenetics

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shea K. Robison
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Health Domains

Background. Epigenetics, which is just beginning to attract public attention and policy discussion, challenges conventional understanding of gene-environment interaction and intergenerational inheritance and perhaps much more besides.Question. Does epigenetics challenge modern political ideologies?Methods.I analyzed the narratives of obesity and epigenetics recently published in the more liberalNew York Timesand the more conservativeWall Street Journal. For the years 2010 through 2014, 50 articles on obesity and 29 articles on epigenetics were identified, and elements in their causal narratives were quantitatively analyzed using a well described narrative policy framework.Findings.The narratives on obesity aligned with the two newspapers’ reputed ideologies. However, the narratives on epigenetics aligned with neither ideology but freely mixed liberal and conservative elements.Discussion.This small study may serve as a starting point for broader studies of epigenetics as it comes to affect political ideologies and, in turn, public policies. The narrative mix reported here could yet prove vulnerable to ideological capture, or, more optimistically, could portend the emergence of a “third-way” narrative using epigenetics to question atomistic individualism and allowing for less divisiveness in public-health domains such as obesity.

scholarly journals O Plano Real visto de fora

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. e35207
Author(s):  
Bruno Henz Biasetto
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
America Latina

O presente artigo pretende analisar como as quatro mais importantes publicações econômicas do mundo (The Economist, Financial Times, New York Times e The Wall Street Journal) perceberam a implementação do Plano Real em 1994. O objetivo central do artigo é analisar a percepção anglo-americana sobre o Brasil da época, com foco nas questões políticas e econômicas do país. A análise das publicações aqui realizada compreende os anos de 1993 e 1994, com um olhar detalhado para as eleições presidenciais de 1994. A pesquisa vem a evidenciar os vícios de análise das publicações, bem como os valores anglo-saxônicos influenciam a percepção sobre a América Latina.

scholarly journals Crisis discourses

Diacrítica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-219
Author(s):  
Georgina Abreu ◽  
Marcin Kleban
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
European Union ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
English Language ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
The Guardian

Taking the whole European Union (EU) as background, the present study discusses the way a corpus of English language media articles has represented the 2009-2016 crisis and austerity policies in Poland and Portugal, the home countries of the authors. The selected corpus comprises 68 articles from mainstream English language media, namely the newspapers The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the economics magazine The Economist. The theoretical framework draws on the Bakhtinian notions of polyphony and heteroglossia, as well as on Gramsci's theory of hegemony. It thus juxtaposes and interprets the different voices and conflicting meanings within crisis discourses, relating them to issues of power and ideology. The Conclusion shows that despite rhetorical diversity, common politically contingent voices were identified which underpin the discourses dominating the crisis narrations in these two economically and geographically distant countries of the European Union.

scholarly journals The 2021 Middle East agenda of U.S. media

2021 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Pavel Koshkin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
The U.S

The escalation of the Arab-Israeli conflict has been testing the Biden administration since May 2021, with exposing the current Middle East agenda of U.S. media and its impact on Biden’s and democrats’ reputation. Despite the fact that the press has a certain, if restricted, influence on politics, intuitively, journalists come up with understanding of public opinion on Biden. This article deals with the problem of the U.S. president’s publicity through the lens of the current media discourse, with author relying on the descriptive method, discourse analysis and content analysis of materials in American mainstream media such as  The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall-Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Politico, Newsweek and Time. In conclusion, the author assumes that – alongside with the problems of inflation, economic crisis and the pandemic – the coverage of the recent Arab-Israeli escalation in the U.S. press has an additional negative impact on Biden’s reputation and his odds of winning the 2024 future election.

Slippery Slopes

2013 ◽  
pp. 39-65
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Business Models ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Business Success ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Wall Street Journal

In order to clarify some defining factors of business success in the information age, this chapter presents two known failures. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. successfully marketed a reputable product, but certain flaws in the company’s structure and process led to a decision to protect its print product rather than make a shift to digital media, with irreversible results. Among newspapers, the San Jose Mercury News seemed ideally positioned to make a successful transition to the Internet age. Yet it was impossible to do so without the cooperation of other major newspapers, which it was unable to obtain. This example evinces the rise of a new and widespread paradigm in which users expect content without cost, which has proved especially challenging for newspapers. However, several publications, including The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and The New York Times, have adopted new business models that may lead to sustainability.

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