scholarly journals Bjarne Riis - idol og syndebuk

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
Elias Canetti ◽  
Tour De France ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Sacrifice ◽  
The Way

Bjarne Riis – idol and scapegoatGod one day, scapegoat the next. This is the shape of the story told by the press about the Danish winner of the Tour de France, Bjarne Riis. This article came into being as a result of astonishment at the way in which the press and the public have dealt with the phenomenon of drug use among professional cyclists. The subject is investigated from a cultural-analytical approach, and the article throws light on the way in which press reports along with publicity in general created a kangaroo court, and on how fanatical adulation are transformed to envy and hate. The story of the rise and fall of Bjarne Riis is compared to a genuine scapegoat ritual, and the sacrifice of the scapegoat is compared with the sacrifices of ancient societies. Both journalism and the public subscribe to an ancient game, which places itself outside our modern society, founded as it is on the rule of law.Michel Foucault’s notion of punishment in pre-modern society is used to illustrate the subject. The scapegoat theory of the French religious philosopher, René Girard, provides a basis for a description of the rise and fall of the god of cycling, while Elias Canetti is used to put the reactions of the public into perspective. The book that inspired this article is Verner Møller’s Dopingdjævlen (Drug Devil), which, in line with the ideals of modern society regarding good sense and the need for dialogue, attempts to explain the phenomenon of drugs and sport. The French philosopher, Georges Bataille, also enters the picture here and is used to help understand the cyclist’s willingness to act as sacrifice in relation to sport.

THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-258
Author(s):  
JORGEN S. DICH
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Medicine ◽  
Personal Freedom ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Bias ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

The subject of this talk concerns social medicine in the Scandinavian countries, not socialized medicine. The term socialized medicine has a political bias which is not in conformity with the conception of social medicine in Scandinavia. Every step in the development of the Scandinavian social medicine program has been adopted unanimously by all parties, irrespective of their attitudes toward socialism itself. Political parties have advocated liberalism and opposed socialism with the same ardor with which they have supported the expansion of social medicine. In Scandinavia, therefore, it is not necessary to advise us to "Keep politics out of this picture." Politics have always been omitted, even to the extent that a phrase corresponding to the American "socialized medicine" has never been used in Scandinavia. And if you were to try introducing it, it would not be understood. What is social medicine? It can be defined as an organization of the medical services according to a certain conception of individual or human rights and public obligations in a modern society. In all countries it is accepted that there are some basic needs which everyone has the right to satisfy, irrespective of income. Protection of personal freedom belongs to this group; so does education of the children.

Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to enquire into the State of Lunatic Asylums in Scotland, and the existing Law in reference to Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums in that part of the United Kingdom. 1857

1857 ◽  
Vol 3 (22) ◽  
pp. 548-566
Author(s):  
J. C. B.
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The State ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Lunatic Asylums

On few occasions has the great heart of the public been more deeply moved than by the recent revelations of the Scotch Lunacy Report. The report itself is a document remarkable not only for the information it contains, but for the soundness of opinions which it expresses, and for its general good sense, moderation, and justice. It is excellent, both in matter and manner, and is highly creditable not only to the whole of the Commissioners, whose industry in their vocation it illustrates, and whose opinions it enunciates, but it is so in the highest degree to the particular Commissioner to whom was entrusted the task of drawing it up, and whose enlightened views and wide knowledge on the subject of insanity, our associates will have no difficulty in recognising.

Conceptual metaphors in press headlines on globalisation

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Honesto Herrera-Soler
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Level ◽  
Conceptual Metaphors ◽  
The Press ◽  
Value Judgements ◽  
The Subject ◽  
British Press ◽  
National Stereotypes ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy ◽  
The Way ◽  
Cultural Frames

The systematic use of metaphor and metonymy in economics discourse facilitates reading and widens the scope of our understanding in the globalisation domain. The importance of metaphor in conveying ideology has been highlighted since Lakoff and Johnson (1980:34) and recent studies have shown in detail how ideology, particularly in press discourse, underlies conceptual metaphors (Hawkins 2001; White and Herrera-Soler 2003). The aim of this article is to identify and contrast the conceptual metaphors underlying the metaphorical expressions found on internet editions throughout 2003 in Spanish and British press headlines dealing with the subject of globalisation. Findings show that though the meaning of globalisation seems to be elusive, the perspectivation metaphor provides a good understanding of the way the press handles pro- and anti-globalisation headlines. On the grounds of cultural frames such as national stereotypes and economies, and newspaper ideology, no significant differences are found between the languages at the conceptual level. Nevertheless, important differences arise by virtue of culture specific imagery and value-judgements occasionally show a markedly cultural realisation.

Judicial Resistance to Sentencing Accountability

1975 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald D. Robin
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civilian Review ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Sacrifice

A social-psychological interpretation of judicial resistance to sentencing accountability is presented against a background of or ganizational theory and institutional change. The provision of documented reasons in sentencing is related to a predictable in crease in appellate review and reversal, heightened criticism by the press and the public, and consequent diminution of the judiciary's role. The reaction by judges to reform of their sentencing function is viewed as entirely rational: they desire to preserve their advan tageous position in the criminal justice system. Efforts to avoid infringement upon their most valued discretionary domain are de termined by the innovation's incentives and impediments per ceived and felt by the judges. The court's response to sentencing accountability is compared with the police response to the now- defunct civilian review boards. The relinquishment of discretion, especially that exercised by high echelon administrators, does not yield easily to the transparent rhetoric of the criminal justice re formers and intellectuals attempting to convince the functionaries involved that guided, controlled, benevolently monitored "innova tion" applied to operational power and authority will be painless, worth the sacrifice, or fully justified by the contribution to "im provement of the system." Those who have the most have the most to lose from the prospect and implementation of social change. Ac cordingly, the targets of the change agents are highly inventive and effective in guarding their possessions and in maintaining their social status and the bureaucratic status quo. Nonetheless, the case for sentencing accountability is compelling, and, as a result of pro cesses and forces largely external to the court itself, we may be wit nessing the beginning of the criminal law revolution coming home to roost.

scholarly journals Trends of Rudaw's Weekly Press Discourse in Raising Public Awareness of National Issues

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-54
Author(s):  
Aryana I. Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Public Awareness ◽  
Accurate Analysis ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
The Press ◽  
Unified View ◽  
The Subject ◽  
National Settlement ◽  
Weekly Press

This research is an attempt to present and discuss the subject of the journalistic discourse in the Kurdish press and educating the public on national issues, which are determined by the political and economic framework of the country through the elements of national sovereignty, international relations and economic policy. Citizen, the land and the country together so the researcher considered stop to search the facts related to the process of communication and those messages addressed to the general public through the press institutions lead us to reach the results in a scientific description and accurate analysis of the subject by which the researcher means As long as one of the scientific methods used in communication research based on the method of content analysis and questionnaire in the form of fieldwork in order to obtain the desired results. One of the most important results obtained by the researcher is the need for a unified press letter applied in all media institutions in order to preserve the safety of citizens and the security of the country, for it is observed that the Kurdish media do not adopt a unified view concerning national issues, in this case, the news on the Western Kurdistan. This approach to national issues should be eliminated and the Kurdish media should adopt a uniform media discourse in addressing such issues in order to crate a sense of national settlement and security.

scholarly journals The Volhynian mass murders of 1943 in Polish-Ukrainian historical discussions in the 1990s

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Tetiana Banakh
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Polish Population ◽  
National History ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
Mass Murders ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

The article analyzes the first public discussions of the last decade of the 20th century about mass murders of Polish population in Volhynia in 1943. The author explores the emergence of the topic of “Volhynia” in the public space and Polish-Ukrainian historical debates about these mass murders in the 1990s. The research is based on the published sources and interviews with the participants in the Polish-Ukrainian dialog. The article focuses on the first mentions of the Volhynian events in the post-communist period, on the way this issue was discussed at seminars of Polish and Ukrainian historians, and in the leading Polish newspapers “Gazeta Wyborcza” and “Rzeczpospolita”. Particular attention is paid to the discussion about the mass murders in the “Gazeta Wyborcza” in 1995. The Volhynian issue appeared in the public space after almost fifty years of silence initiated from the Polish “kres” and veteran circles which represented the victims of the mass murders. This topic was arousing interest gradually. It did not immediately take a lead- ing place in Polish-Ukrainian historical debates. In the 1990s, the discussion about “Volhynia” took place primarily between historians and within the groups to which this topic was important. There was only one discussion about the Volhynian events in the press, namely in the “Gazeta Wyborcza”. This newspaper, which appeared as an organ of Solidarity, pays attention especially to the relationship between Poland and its neighbours, particularly Ukraine. In the Ukrainian central media, the Volhynian issue remained completely without attention. Although the debates about “Volhynia” were not actively conducted in the 1990s, certain tendencies were established during this period, which remained characteristic in the following years. In Poland, these events were perceived as one of the most traumatic episodes of the national history, so it was the Polish side who initiated the discussions about this topic. The Ukrainian side was forced to respond to these initiatives.

scholarly journals Szpiedzy i szpiegostwo w prasie poznańskiej okresu dwudziestolecia międzywojennego

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
Patrycja Kanafocka
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Public ◽  
Special Services ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Subject

Przedmiotem przedstawianego tekstu jest działalność poznańskiego kontrwywiadu w uświadomieniu zagrożenia szpiegostwem ludności cywilnej na terenie województwa poznańskiego, a także rola, jaką odegrała prasa Poznańskiego w realizacji tego zadania. Temat szpiegostwa w prasie wielkopolskiej był niewątpliwie jednym z najczęściej poruszanych w okresie II Rzeczypospolitej. Na jego popularność wpływało nie tylko szerokie zainteresowanie czytelników. Rozrastający się rynek prasowy i coraz większa konkurencja na nim powodowały, że konieczność zdobycia uwagi czytelników wymuszała koncentrację na tematach wzbudzających zainteresowanie. Zamieszczano nawet krótkie, a niepozbawione sensacyjnych wątków informacje o aresztowaniach czy podejrzeniach o szpiegostwo. Odrębną zupełnie kwestią była współpraca prasy z poznańską „Dwójką”, która, dopuszczając zamieszczanie artykułów o szpiegach i szpiegostwie, prowadziła akcję uświadamiania obywateli o grożącym im niebezpieczeństwie. Symbioza prasy i służb specjalnych przyniosła równe korzyści obydwu stronom. Dla prasy zamieszczanie interesujących opinię publiczną informacji przekładało się na liczbę czytelników i nakład, a co za tym idzie także na zysk. Służby specjalne realizowały poprzez prasę swoje cele. Edukowanie społeczeństwa było tylko jednym z nich, ważniejsze z perspektywy realizowania operacji było odwrócenie uwagi od przeprowadzanych działań kontrwywiadowczych i kierowanie jej w stronę działalności obcych służb. Spies and espionage in the Poznań press in the period 1918–1939 The subject of the article is the operation of counterintelligence in Poznań and its role in raising awareness of the danger of espionage among civilians in the Poznań region, as well as the role of Poznań press in fulfilling this task. The subject of espionage was undoubtedly one of the most frequently discussed in the Greater Poland press in the period of the Second Polish Republic. The reasons for its popularity lay not only in avid interest it aroused among the readers. The expanding press market and growing competition meant that newspapers had to draw readers’ attentions by concentrating on those subjects which the public found interesting. No matter how short the pieces information about the arrests or the suspicion of espionage were, their sensational character meant they were published. The cooperation between the press and the Poznań counterintelligence which, by allowing the press to publish articles on spies and espionage, raised awareness among the citizens on the possible dangers, is a whole separate issue. The collaboration between the press and special services was mutually beneficial. The press printed articles that were interesting from the point of view of the public, which was then reflected in the number of readers and circulation, as well as financial profit. Special services achieved their own goals. Educating the society was only one of them. From the point of view of their operations, drawing attention away from the activity of counterintelligence and towards the operation of foreign services remained more important.

scholarly journals How the Press Creates the Image of Generation Z: An Evaluation of the Message Effectiveness of Polish Weekly Opinion Magazines

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-338
Author(s):  
Arleta Hrehorowicz
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Message Effectiveness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Economic ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Subject

The subject of is study was the image of contemporary young people in Polish opinion magazines. The research problem was identified as the manner in which the opinion-forming press creates the im­age of the Z generation. Nearly 500 issues published by 10 weeklies in the period between 2015–2016 were analysed. As a result, knowledge was gained on how readers evaluate their message. Moreover, the question was answered as to which of the public, economic, and private spheres of young peo­ple’s lives the editors emphasize most distinctly, as well as which categories assigned to these spheres arouse most emotion among readers.

scholarly journals Art. II.—Letters to the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society

1841 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 11-41
Author(s):  
W. Morley ◽  
Duncan Forbes
Keyword(s):  
The Public ◽  
French Government ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Mean Time ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society

Whilst I was engaged last year in making a catalogue of the Oriental MSS. comprised in the libraries of the Society and the Oriental Translation Committee, I met with the historical MS. which is the subject of the following letter. I, at that time, applied to the Council of the Society for permission to forward a description of the MS. to M. Quatremere, who is employed in editing the only portion of the work hitherto known, in the hope that he would represent the matter to the French Government, and cause our MS. to be published in the “Collection Orientale,” as a sequel to his “Histoire des Mongols.” The council acceded to my request, and I accordingly wrote to M. Quatremère on the subject, but whether on account of my letter not having reached its destination or from the press of business, he has not as yet returned any answer to my communication. In the mean time, I think it desirable that the existence of this important volume should be made known to the public, and I have accordingly drawn up the following account of the MS. for insertion in the Journal of the Society.

The Languages of Preaching in the Islamic Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Millie
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Language Selection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

Chapter Five explores the ways in which the preaching styles analysed in the two preceding chapters are publically evaluated, pointing out the way in which public norms about appropriate communication inform negative judgements of one of them (Al-Jauhari’s). The analytical approach to those norms is made through the subject of language selection (Sundanese versus Indonesian), a variable that expresses listeners’ recognition of a hierarchy of preaching styles.

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