Shaping immigration news : a French-American comparison /
Rodney Benson, New York University.
- xiv, 280 pages ; 24 cm.
- Communication, society and politics .
- Communication, society, and politics. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why study immigration news? -- The French and U.S. journalistic fields: position, logic, and structure -- Narrating the immigrant experience in the U.S. media: from jobs threat to humanitarian suffering -- Organizing the immigration debate in the French media: giving voice to civil society and strategizing against Le Pen -- Explaining continuity and change in French and U.S. immigration news -- What makes news more multiperspectival? -- What makes for a critical press? -- Does the medium matter? Television news about immigration -- The forces of fields and the forms of news. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s, Rodney Benson shows how the immigration debate has become increasingly focused on the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of humanitarianism and public order. In both countries, less commercialized media tend to offer the most in-depth, multi-perspective, and critical news. Benson challenges classic liberalism's assumptions about state intervention's chilling effects on the press, suggests costs as well as benefits to the current vogue in personalized narrative news, and calls attention to journalistic practices that can help empower civil society. This book offers new theories and methods for sociologists and media scholars and fresh insights for journalists, policy makers, and concerned citizens."--Publisher description.
0521887674 9780521887670
2012048874
Mass media and immigrants--United States Mass media and immigrants--France