The liberal model cannot explain simultaneous media independence and structural integration with power.

Evidence

We cannot from such a model predict or comprehend the specific areas of conjuncture and disjuncture which arise between different institutions in civil society. Thus, we would find it impossible to account for the fact that, on a series of specific occasions in recent months, the broadcasters have correctly asserted their editorial independence against clear political pressure (Yesterday’s Men and The Question of Ulster are two instances): and yet at the same time account for the mutual adjustments, the reciprocity of interests and definitions, occurring from day-to-day in all the central domains of broadcasting, between broadcasting and the institutions of power. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 857

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• QUESTION: Hall rejects both the state-control and free-autonomy models; what positive model of power-ideology flow does he propose in its place?

Related

• Media are neither state-controlled nor autonomous but oriented within power structures (similarity 0.88)
• A two-state model cannot explain institutions that are both free and constrained. (similarity 0.87)
• Media power requires a model of complex formation, not conspiracy or freedom. (similarity 0.87)
• Broadcast media hold only partial autonomy from power structures, never full independence. (similarity 0.85)
• Broadcasters are simultaneously independent and institutionally aligned with power (similarity 0.82)
• Broadcasters’ editorial autonomy operates within state-defined ideological bounds (similarity 0.80)
• Broadcasting’s formal autonomy conceals its ultimate orientation within state hegemony (similarity 0.80)
• Broadcasters’ editorial freedom is bounded by the state’s ideological hegemony (similarity 0.80)
• Broadcasting’s editorial autonomy operates within a state-defined hegemonic framework (similarity 0.79)
• Crisis reveals broadcasting’s hidden symbiosis with power and dominant ideologies more than with profit (similarity 0.79)
• Media monopoly over commissioning power undermines democratic self-government (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Power as damage threat cannot explain power’s order-creating function in complex societies. #corroborates (0.82) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 636
• Media power requires a model of complex formation, not conspiracy or freedom. #expands (0.70) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 858