Professional skill in text reproduction requires suppressing intellectual interest in content

Evidence

All professionals generate their own distinctive ideologies and routines. But the growth of professionalism in broadcasting seems to have another function—essentially that of a defensive barrier which insulates the broadcaster from the contending forces which play across any progressive-making in a sensitive area. It is often a species of professional retreatism, a technique of neutralization. By converting issues of substance into a technical idiom, and by making himself responsible primarily for the technical competence with which the program is executed, the producer raises himself above the problematic content of the issues he presents. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 872 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A published text escapes authorial control entirely. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 828; Broadcast professionalism functions as a defensive retreat from contested content — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 872; Scientific validity in Orientalist writing requires canceling the human content of its subjects (+1 more)

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Broader Connections

• Scientific validity in Orientalist writing requires canceling the human content of its subjects #expands (0.85)
• Broadcast professionalism functions as a defensive retreat from contested content #expands (0.82) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 872