Polling on Watergate: The Battle for Public Opinion

Lang, Gladys Engel; Lang, Kurt

doi:10.1086/268621

Cited by 19 publications

(14 citation statements)

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Where once the police were crime news 'gatekeepers' (Ericson et al, 1991), 'patrolling the facts', they are now 'crime news stakeholders', just one group among many -and a fragmented one at that -involved in an ongoing and uncertain process of 'negotiating the facts'. Where once the police were the key players in a process of 'agenda setting', they are now part players in an altogether more complex and unpredictable process of 'agenda building' (Lang and Lang, 1983). In the following sections, we shed further analytical light on the changing nature of news mediapolice chief relations, and the rising news media 'politics of outrage', by analysing the 'trial by media' that defined the ill-fated Commissionership of Sir Ian Blair.…”

Section: Trial By Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Trial by media’: Policing, the 24-7 news mediasphere and the ‘politics of outrage’

Greer

McLaughlin

2011

Theoretical Criminology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article analyses the changing nature of news media—police chief relations. Building on previous research (Greer and McLaughlin, 2010), we use the concepts of ‘inferential structure’ (Lang and Lang, 1955) and ‘hierarchy of credibility’ (Becker, 1967) to examine former Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Commissioner Sir Ian Blair’s ‘trial by media’. We focus on the collective and overwhelmingly hostile journalistic reaction to Blair’s declaration in 2005 that: (a) the news media are guilty of ‘institutional racism’ in their coverage of murders; and (b) the murders of two 10-year-olds in Soham, 2001, received undue levels of media attention. A sustained period of symbolic media annihilation in the British mainstream press established a dominant ‘inferential structure’ that defined Blair as the ‘gaffe-prone Commissioner’: his position in the ‘hierarchy of credibility’ was shredded, and his Commissionership de-legitimized. The unprecedented resignation of an MPS Commissioner is situated within the wider context of ‘attack journalism’ and the rising news media ‘politics of outrage’.

show abstract

Section: Trial By Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Trial by media’: Policing, the 24-7 news mediasphere and the ‘politics of outrage’

Greer

McLaughlin

2011

Theoretical Criminology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Geared to writing an immediate first draft of history, news accounts are rich in description about the present and they both reflect and influence public opinion and policy formation (Bengston et al, 1999;Huebner et al, 1997;Jamieson and Campbell, 1988;Lang and Lang, 1983;Nelkin, 1995;Neuendorf, 2002;Trumbo, 1995;Wanta et al, 2004). Our content analysis system -which produces maps of what we call the rhetorical landscape of policy formation -is designed to aid the policy scientist in the description of trends in social and decision processes surrounding a policy.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Merging content analysis and the policy sciences: A system to discern policy-specific trends from news media reports

2006

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this article we set out to bridge a surprising methodological gap between two time-honored research traditions – news media content analysis and the policy sciences analytic framework. Lasswell, a recognized pioneer of both the method and the framework, discussed the mutual benefits of each decades ago. But few researchers, if any, have formally linked the two. To that end, in this article we (1) make the case for using news media content analysis to inform research studies using the policy sciences analytic framework; (2) introduce an original content analysis categorical system for that purpose; (3) demonstrate that system with a study of 90 national news articles about the stratospheric ozone hole; and (4) compare our system to others used to examine news content. We report that our system, used by human coders, is well geared to describing and mapping trends in the social process surrounding the development of the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty during the intelligence gathering and promotion phases encompassed by our data sample. We argue that other content analysis systems fall short – in structure and purpose – of meeting the promise ours holds to the policy scientist. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006News media, Montreal Protocol, Policy sciences, Content analysis, Environmental policy, Ozone hole,

show abstract

“…First, there is the audience as market, in which those viewing, listening or reading may be seen as: commodity, with media producers simply seeking a sale 226 HUCKINS numbers, the increase (or strategic decrease) in the total of audience members individuals, attendant to appeals based on a variety of demographic factors spectators, who withhold or grant attention as a sort of interested bystander (along the lines of Lang & Lang, 1983) Second, the audience may be construed as a public, activated to fulfill a particular social role. The emphasis is, as Ang (1991) might put it, on meaningful messages rather than on meaningful advertisements.…”

Section: Terminologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Saga ofChristian American:Identifying Mission and Locating Audience at a Religiously Oriented Publication

Huckins

2011

Journal of Media and Religion

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Polling on Watergate: The Battle for Public Opinion

Cited by 19 publications

References 1 publication

‘Trial by media’: Policing, the 24-7 news mediasphere and the ‘politics of outrage’

‘Trial by media’: Policing, the 24-7 news mediasphere and the ‘politics of outrage’

Merging content analysis and the policy sciences: A system to discern policy-specific trends from news media reports

The Saga ofChristian American:Identifying Mission and Locating Audience at a Religiously Oriented Publication

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About