Impartial broadcast form recruits viewers into a false neutrality toward class conflict
Evidence
This tendency of broadcasting to stand above conflict and judge it impartially is especially damaging for the viewer, who is encouraged to identify with the presenter, and who thus comes to see himself as a neutral and dispassionate party to a partisan and impassioned struggle: the disinvolved spectator before the spectacle of conflict. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 870
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Precisely the logic of ideology critique Hall inherits from Marx and deepens via Gramsci’s ‘common sense.‘
Related
- Impartial broadcast formats recruit viewers into a falsely neutral spectator position (similarity 0.92)
- Neutral broadcasters translate all political conflict into the language of compromise (similarity 0.82)
- Media neutrality underwrites the shared presuppositions of political contest. (similarity 0.79)
- Broadcast impartiality is a staged performance of neutrality, not genuine neutrality (similarity 0.78)