Media do ideological labor by assigning events to classifying schemes.

Evidence

The more unclear the news item and the more uncertain or doubtful the newsman is in how to report it, the more likely it is to be reported in a general framework that has been already established. — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics, 224 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media are sites of struggle with relative autonomy from state and capital.; Mass media emerged with agrarian capitalism as culture itself became a commodity.; Fragmented classes need media to construct a coherent image of the social whole. (+5 more)

Related

• Media selects events based on alignment with existing frameworks. (similarity 0.89)
• Media codes survive changes in subject matter but not the selections made under them (similarity 0.88)
• Media shapes public knowledge by defining events and scenarios people cannot access directly (similarity 0.81)
• Media are sites of struggle with relative autonomy from state and capital. (similarity 0.79)
• Media orient citizens by sifting out intersubjectively shared interpretations of the world (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Media selects events based on alignment with existing frameworks. #expands (0.75) — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics, 224
• Media shapes public knowledge by defining events and scenarios people cannot access directly #expands (0.70)