<i>Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media</i>. Michael Parenti

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doi:10.1086/601879

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“…The correspondence between police estimates and those of newspaper reports of the details of protest events in Minsk, Belarus, where the police and journalists are adversaries, also show similarly high rates of agreement about the form of the event, whether arrests had taken place, and whether the event was officially sanctioned (Titarenko et al 2001). Similarly high levels of correspondence are also evident for estimates of crowd size in both of these studies, despite widespread impressions that are created by the common complaints about such estimates by protest organizers and critics (Parenti 1993).…”

Section: Coding Data From the Nytmentioning

confidence: 68%

Protest under Fire? Explaining the Policing of Protest

2003

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Hypotheses about police presence and police action at social movement protest events in New York State between 1968 and 1973 are tested with the aim of understanding the broad mechanisms of social control used by authorities during this cycle of mass protest. Contrary to the popular perception of overzealous police repression of protest in this period, results show that police did not attend the majority of protest events. Tests of dominant explanations of police presence using logistic regression analysis indicate that the best predictor of police presence at a protest event was how threatening the event was—police attended larger protest events and those that used confrontational tactics. Tests (using multinomial logistic regression) of explanations of police action, given police presence at an event, indicate that extreme forms of police action were also triggered by threatening characteristics of events. Events in which subordinate groups and social movement organizations participated were also more likely to draw police action. Novel contributions include the comparison of dominant explanations of protest policing and methods that move beyond the tradition of examining repression through police presence or absence.

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Section: Coding Data From the Nytmentioning

confidence: 68%

Protest under Fire? Explaining the Policing of Protest

2003

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“…Framing is used strategically by media to reproduce a view of reality supportive of existing social and economic relationships (Parenti, 1986). The media in Latin America are characterized by an extremely high level of market concentration, resulting in the representation of a narrow set of perspectives (Lupien, 2013;Márquez-Ramírez and Guerrero, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Framing Indigenous protest in the online public sphere: A comparative frame analysis

Lupien

Rincón

Lalama

et al. 2022

New Media & Society

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Indigenous social movement organizations are increasingly using social media to engage in strategic framing, a dynamic discursive process that seeks to attribute meaning to events and circumstances. But there remains a gap in our knowledge with respect to the impact of social media on the capacity of Indigenous actors to engage in frame competition in the virtual world. Based on a comparative frame analysis of online content in three Latin American countries where Indigenous organizations have recently engaged in large-scale protest, we ask to what extent the frames generated by Indigenous actors on social media are reflected in the online public sphere. We examine how their protest action is framed by Indigenous organizations themselves, the media, and government agencies. We find that social media do provide an outlet for Indigenous actors to disseminate counter-hegemonic frames. But state and media actors do not engage with Indigenous frames disseminated over social media, and their messages do not change the tone or direction of online discourse.

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“…A key to this manipulation is disguising the fact that the media is the controlling institution of capitalism, which serves the interests of the rich and powerful elite. To Parenti, the persistent media failure when taken in the aggregate, serves as a conscious reification of the political and social status qou in America, that the media are a ISSN 1013-1108 conservative force rather than a liberal one (Berlet 1987). He argues that the mass media "exert a subtle, persistence influence in defining the scope of respectable political discourse, channeling public attention in directions that are essentially supportive of the existing politico-economic system" (Berlet 1987).…”

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“…To Parenti, the persistent media failure when taken in the aggregate, serves as a conscious reification of the political and social status qou in America, that the media are a ISSN 1013-1108 conservative force rather than a liberal one (Berlet 1987). He argues that the mass media "exert a subtle, persistence influence in defining the scope of respectable political discourse, channeling public attention in directions that are essentially supportive of the existing politico-economic system" (Berlet 1987). Parenti writes: the most important effect of the news media is that they set the issue agenda for the rest of us, choosing what to emphasize and what to ignore or suppress, in effect, organizing much of our political world for us.…”

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confidence: 99%

Manufacturing Consent Revisted: China’s image in selected South African media in the opening phase of the Covid-19 pandemic

Pillay

2021

SRSA

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The absence of any real substantial critique of China in South Africa media in the aftermath of Covid-19 is cause of concern given the increasing evidence to suggest that China is exporting its authoritarian press censorship culture abroad. South Africa, a strategic partner of China, offers insight into this “export.” In developing a methodology which asks if “China is crafting its image”, this research examines a sample of South African media between March- July 2020 to ascertain if censorship occurred. Deploying the theoretical framework of the Propaganda Model (PM) developed Herman and Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent” theory, the research cross analyzes via five filters to determine if China is “Manufacturing Consent” within the South African media.

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Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media. Michael Parenti

Cited by 8 publications

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Protest under Fire? Explaining the Policing of Protest

Protest under Fire? Explaining the Policing of Protest

Framing Indigenous protest in the online public sphere: A comparative frame analysis

Manufacturing Consent Revisted: China’s image in selected South African media in the opening phase of the Covid-19 pandemic

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