Media frames actively exclude and delegitimize alternative realities

Evidence

As Judith Butler argues, the media actively participates in a “strategy of containment, selectively producing and enforcing what will count as reality.” In doing so, the frame is always “keeping something out, always derealizing and de-legitimizing alternative versions of reality.” — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 571

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Butler’s ‘strategy of containment’ as a precise term for how media frames both produce and exclude reality.
• XREF: Connects to Goffman’s frame analysis and to the reader’s material on representation and communication-as-culture. — connects to: Digital media isolate people from contrary opinion which face-to-face life once forced — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 118; Debate framing narrows when alternatives are excluded from broadcast
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 571