Television expresses and contains conflict simultaneously.

Evidence

Since discord unfolds its negative, destructive character between particular individuals, we naively conclude that it must have the same effect on the total group. In reality, however, something which is negative and damaging between individuals if it is considered in isolation and as aiming in a particular direction, does not necessarily have the same effect within the total relationship of these individuals. For a very different picture emerges when we view the conflict in conjunction with other interactions not affected by it. The negative and dualistic elements play an entirely positive role in this more comprehensive picture, despite the destruction they may work on particular relations. All this is very obvious in the competition of individuals within an economic unit. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 280 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Broadcast media can transform political violence into shared national trauma — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1216; Broadcasting’s formal balance of two sides distorts unequal real-world conflicts; Media balance reproduces the shared presuppositions that bracket political disagreement (+5 more)

Related

• Broadcasting’s need for credibility traps it between consensus and its critics (similarity 0.80)
• Media balance reproduces the shared presuppositions that bracket political disagreement (similarity 0.80)
• Broadcasting’s formal balance of two sides distorts unequal real-world conflicts (similarity 0.79)
• Media neutrality underwrites the shared presuppositions of political contest. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Conflict destructive at one level can integrate the larger group #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 280
• Broadcasting’s formal balance of two sides distorts unequal real-world conflicts #corroborates (0.60)
• Media balance reproduces the shared presuppositions that bracket political disagreement #corroborates (0.55)
• Broadcasting’s need for credibility traps it between consensus and its critics #expands (0.50)
• Media neutrality underwrites the shared presuppositions of political contest. #corroborates (0.50)
• Broadcast professionalism functions as a defensive retreat from contested content #qualifies (0.45) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 872