Broadcast professionalism functions as a defensive retreat from contested content

Evidence

All professionals generate their own distinctive ideologies and routines. But the growth of professionalism in broadcasting seems to have another function—essentially that of a defensive barrier which insulates the broadcaster from the contending forces which play across any progressive-making in a sensitive area. It is often a species of professional retreatism, a technique of neutralization. By converting issues of substance into a technical idiom, and by making himself responsible primarily for the technical competence with which the program is executed, the producer raises himself above the problematic content of the issues he presents. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 872

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to neutralization as an ideology-critique concept in the Frankfurt School readings and to professionalism masking value-laden choices elsewhere in Stuart Hall. — connects to: Broadcasting self-regulates within the state’s definition of sociopolitical reality; Broadcast objectivity is an operational fiction hiding selective, value-laden construction.; Broadcasting’s need for credibility traps it between consensus and its critics (+12 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 872

Broader Connections

• Frustration and defensiveness hinder transition to general audience writing. #complicates (0.45) — Tilar J Mazzeo, How to Write a Bestseller, 31