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This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American
journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and
comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on
interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive
sample of newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s,
Rodney Benson shows how the immigration debate has become
increasingly focused on the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of
humanitarianism and public order. Yet even in an era of global
hypercommercialism, Benson also finds enduring French-American
differences related to the distinctive societal positions,
professional logics, and internal structures of their journalistic
fields. In both countries, less commercialized media tend to offer
the most in-depth, multi-perspective, and critical news. Benson
challenges classic liberalism's assumptions about state
intervention's chilling effects on the press, suggests costs as
well as benefits to the current vogue in personalized narrative
news, and calls attention to journalistic practices that can help
empower civil society. This book offers new theories and methods
for sociologists and media scholars and fresh insights for
journalists, policy makers, and concerned citizens.
This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American
journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and
comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on
interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive
sample of newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s,
Rodney Benson shows how the immigration debate has become
increasingly focused on the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of
humanitarianism and public order. Yet even in an era of global
hypercommercialism, Benson also finds enduring French-American
differences related to the distinctive societal positions,
professional logics, and internal structures of their journalistic
fields. In both countries, less commercialized media tend to offer
the most in-depth, multi-perspective, and critical news. Benson
challenges classic liberalism's assumptions about state
intervention's chilling effects on the press, suggests costs as
well as benefits to the current vogue in personalized narrative
news, and calls attention to journalistic practices that can help
empower civil society. This book offers new theories and methods
for sociologists and media scholars and fresh insights for
journalists, policy makers, and concerned citizens.
Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international
collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media
that are challenging the power concentration in large media
corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a
broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in
Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South
Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include
independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web
discussion forums, feminist film, political journalism and social
networks, indigenous communication, and church-sponsored media.
This important book will help shape debates on the media's role in
current global struggles, such as the anti-globalization movement.
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