Broadcasters dismiss as unreasonable any conflict analysis that resists packaging into compromise

Evidence

This stake of the broadcaster in conflict-resolution has the function of legitimating those elements in a conflict which are “realistic”—which can be abstracted from a general case and built in to a “package.” The case which is intrinsically not amenable to this process is, clearly, “unrealistic”—and hence “unreasonable.” Thus the three wise men in The Question of Ulster could not deal with Bernadette Devlin’s evidence, since it was inserted into a class analysis of the Northern Ireland situation, and defied trivialization in terms of producing the elements for a “workable compromise.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 868

Categorization

• XREF: Hall’s analysis of how framing rules silently exclude certain positions connects to agenda-setting theory in media studies and to the reader’s broader thread on how institutions naturalize their own vantage points.
• SEED: Could seed an essay on how ‘reasonable compromise’ framing in journalism systematically excludes structural critique across many issues, not just Northern Ireland.