tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405438569183854317.post1915229967848288347..comments2024-01-30T02:02:02.972-05:00Comments on Ms.Marx: On Pop Culture: Framing protests in the mediaMs.Marxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319090803199238459noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405438569183854317.post-59983144949931701652012-02-01T14:09:12.538-05:002012-02-01T14:09:12.538-05:00Great comparison! Thanks for this :)Great comparison! Thanks for this :)Ginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11864059764695210404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405438569183854317.post-28542762080394618802012-01-30T15:24:26.797-05:002012-01-30T15:24:26.797-05:00Mr. Awesome: there is no story that exists without...Mr. Awesome: there is no story that exists without "someone's interpretation of it." Reporters are real people, embedded in history and society, and thus by the very act of writing are already interpreting according to their class position. Liberal reporting likes to imagine that is somehow free of any bias, and that there is something called pure "objectivity" – there isn't, and the only thing we can properly call "objective" is subjectivity rendered conscious of itself.<br /><br />So the question is what interpretative position to we align with? The interpretative position that sees the world from above (that of ruling class ideology), or the interpretative position that sees the world from the position of below and that calls into question the reality of the ruling class… And this article has done a good job of showing two different interpretative positions on an event (and interpretation can never be escaped), each of which is aligned with a class position.JMPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13384595330293618571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405438569183854317.post-69788978225272363542012-01-30T12:40:59.903-05:002012-01-30T12:40:59.903-05:00Mr.Awesome says:
This was a good comparison betw...Mr.Awesome says:<br /><br /> This was a good comparison between articles. There is a large correlation between bias in articles and confirmation bias in people with strong ideologies. The national post appeals to a Conservative readership but still has legitimacy in the Center-right Liberal readership. They may paint protesters in bad light due to the desire to see them as delinquents rather than people with legitimate concerns.<br /><br /> Like-wise, people on the left are not immune to confirmation bias. I think there is a desire to associate violence with police brutality. <br /><br /> Obviously I don't believe in everything being 50/50 in terms of balance, that guy's head didn't start bleeding on its own accord. I just want to see the story, not someone's interpretation of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com