Small hand-picked text samples weaken claims about media representation

Evidence

Since the 1960s, when discourse studies first emerged, most of the study on this subject has been conducted by academics using critical discourse analysis techniques. Even while many of the researchers (Cavanaugh 2009; Bruce 2006) seem to be undertaking work that is valid in order to support an established assumption, they have been criticized for cherry-picking. It requires additional academic rigor because they rely on a limited number of books and the researchers’ judgments. Thus, a number of scholars have suggested a partnership between corpus linguistics and discourse analysis in response to these objections. — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 31

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to debates in any qualitative media-analysis literature you’ve read about coding reliability and researcher bias.
• QUESTION: What does a practical CDA-plus-corpus pipeline look like, and would it actually settle the cherry-picking objection?