Open repression in broadcasting appears only when routine containment mechanisms fail

Evidence

Broadcasting here is no different from other institutions in the state where open social control and repressive action is taken only as a last resort, when the institutionalized mechanisms for containing and restraining conflict have broken down. But over the whole range of issues and topics, broadcasting operates its own limits and constraints, within the state’s overall definition of sociopolitical reality, as semiautonomous, self-regulating institutions. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 860

Categorization

• XREF: Warrant for the repression-tolerance principle; connects to the ‘outer limits of tolerance’ idea echoable in other institutions of civil society. — connects to: The last twenty-five years ran on controlled desublimation rather than open repression — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 983