Dominant media frames win by repetition while silencing and relativizing rivals.

Evidence

Hall also argues that the preferred cultural framing of an issue acquires dominance through a process of repetition within a context where competing frames are silenced. He notes that “in order for one meaning to be regularly produced, it ha[s] to win a kind of credibility, legitimacy or taken-for-grantedness for itself.” Moreover, this takes place on a terrain where other constructions become “literally unthinkable or unsayable.” While Aslan was given a space to voice his arguments, typically guests on these programs are those who reinforce the status quo. In this case, the interview ended with an acknowledgment of a plurality of “perspectives,” a self-congratulatory stance on CNN’s liberalism and multiculturalism. However, Camerota is quite clear that this is simply Aslan’s point of view, presumably as a Muslim man, rather than a presentation of fact that countered the hegemonic narrative. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 277 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Finally, what are the actual mechanisms which enable the mass media to perform this “ideological work”? In the class democracies, the media are not, on the whole, directly commanded and organized by the state (though, as in the case of British broadcasting, the links may be very close). They are not directly subverted by a section of the “ruling class” speaking in its own voice. They cannot be directly colonized by one of the ruling-class parties: no major interest of capital can exercise its access to the channels of communication without some “countervailing” voice. In their day-to-day administration and practices, the media are set to work within the framework of an impartial professional-technical set of working ideologies (e.g., the “neutral” structure of news values, applied, like the rule of law, “equally” to all sides); though the configurations which they offer are strikingly selective, drawn from an extremely limited repertoire , the open operation of “bias” is the exception rather than the rule. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 920 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dominant cultural frames win through repetition while silencing alternatives. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 265; Media dominance of a frame rests on repetition while silencing competing constructions.; Dominant frames win through repetition while dissent is framed as mere perspective — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 277 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Media dominance of a frame rests on repetition while silencing competing constructions. #corroborates (1.00)
• Dominant frames win through repetition while dissent is framed as mere perspective #corroborates (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 277
• Media reproduce dominant ideology through impartial professional norms rather than overt bias #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 920
• Media neutrality underwrites the shared presuppositions of political contest. #expands (0.72)
• Media balance reproduces the shared presuppositions that bracket political disagreement #expands (0.72)