Value-neutral research framing disguised but did not resolve ideological media debates

Evidence

Social scientific research has done something to refine our notions about the media’s relation to society, but it has neither pacified public anxiety nor adequately put the problems which that relationship posed. The ambience of “value-neutral” research has provided an opportunity for disguised ideological debate in non-ideological societies—but only at the cost of fatally repressing the intrinsic political dimension of the problem. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 842

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compact statement of the thesis that apparent scientific neutrality in media research actually masks ideological claims while repressing their politics — dense and reusable.
• XREF: connects to: Critical Discourse Analysis exposes latent beliefs disguised as neutral metaphors.; Debate framing narrows when alternatives are excluded from broadcast