Crisis moments expose broadcasting’s normally hidden dependence on dominant power.

Evidence

It is thus in moments of polarization and conflict that broadcasting most openly reveals what otherwise is covert, tacit, taken-for-granted: its hidden but pervasive symbiotic relation to power and to the dominant ideologies. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 856

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compact statement of Hall’s central insight: institutions reveal their structural commitments in crisis, a point with wide applicability beyond media.