Propaganda, Persuasion, or Journalism?
@article{Bard2017PropagandaPO, title={Propaganda, Persuasion, or Journalism?}, author={Mitchell Bard}, journal={Electronic News}, year={2017}, volume={11}, pages={100 - 118} }
The scholarly literature on Fox News has largely focused on the network’s ideological disposition, assuming Fox News to be a journalistic operation. However, a handful of scholars have challenged those assumptions. Conway, Grabe, and Grieve found one of the network’s prime-time programs to be practicing propaganda, not journalism. This article seeks to further the work of Conway et al. by employing a qualitative textual analysis of Fox News’ prime-time coverage of health-care reform in 2009 and…
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