Professional norms of neutrality mask the ideological work of media encoding

Evidence

It is masked, frequently, by the intervention of the professional ideologies—those practical-technical routinizations of practice (news values, news sense, lively presentation, “exciting pictures,” good stories, hot news, etc.) which, at the phenomenal level, structure the everyday practices of encoding, and set the encoder within the bracket of a professional-technical neutrality which, in any case, distances him or her effectively from the ideological content of the material s/he is handling and the ideological inflections of the codes s/he is employing. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 921

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how ‘professional neutrality’ in journalism, economics, and academia functions as an ideological mask — comparing news values to academic disciplinary norms as parallel ‘professional ideologies’.
• XREF: connects to: Professional media staff gatekeeping determines the deliberative quality of public opinion — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 29