A major newspaper can function as the ideological organ of an industrial class.

Evidence

At the same time, as the rift in the moral-political consensus in the society widens, the consensus ceases to provide the broadcaster with a built-in ideological compass, an alternative source of legitimation. The ruling elites thus have a direct interest in monopolizing the channels for consensus-formation for their preferred accounts and interpretations, thereby extending their hegemony: they also have a vested interest in ensuring that, when left to their own devices, the media will themselves reproduce, on their behalf, the tentative structure of agreement which favors their hegemony. In such moments, the media themselves become the site for the elaboration of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic ideologies and the terrain of societal and class conflict at the ideological level. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 875 (#expands, via linked claim)

But one of its effects was indeed a reconstituting of the cultural and political relations between the dominant and the dominated classes: a change intimately connected with that containment of popular democracy on which “our democratic way of life” today appears to be so securely based. Its results are all too palpably with us still, today: a popular press, the more strident and virulent as it gradually shrinks; organized by capital “for” the working classes; with, nevertheless, deep and influential roots in the culture and language of the “underdog,” of “Us”: with the power to represent the class to itself in its most traditionalist form. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 998 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: When consensus frays, media become the terrain of ideological class conflict — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 875; The commercial press reconfigured class relations by containing popular democracy. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 998

Broader Connections

• When consensus frays, media become the terrain of ideological class conflict #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 875
• The commercial press reconfigured class relations by containing popular democracy. #expands (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 998