Worse yet, this month's National Geographic contains some really poor
writing and pages of adverts for incredibly expensive watches etc. The
Mirror is particularly interesting as regards ads as many are for loans
from - wait for it - loan companies owned by the Mirror. Still, the
Independent does the same - ever noticed how many ads there are for
companies that happen to have "Independent" in their name? My vote is for Le
Monde - no news of Brown and Blair, only two columns of sport and a cracking
Sudoko
Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Burton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Yesterday's Guardian
>A couple of interesting recent articles in JCASP and CWF from Norway have
> done a similar analysis of how the entire discourse of (Norwegian)
> newspapers has shifted rightwards (see refs and abstracts below). Nice to
> see a more societal level of analysis in CP - I'm sure similar / more
> marked trends would be found here.
>
> Ideology and power: the influence of current neo-liberalism in society (p
> 313-327) J Comm and App Soc Psy: Volume 17, Issue 4, (July/August 2007)
> Hilde Eileen Nafstad, Rolv Mikkel Blakar, Erik Carlquist, Joshua Marvle
> Phelps, Kim Rand-Hendriksen
> Abstract
> Understanding power requires analysis of the intra-personal,
> interpersonal, inter-group as well as the ideological levels. The present
> study demonstrates the importance of the ideological level. A longitudinal
> analysis (1984-2005) of media language in Norwegian public discourse
> demonstrates how the current globalised capitalist market ideology has
> increasingly permeated this long-established Scandinavian welfare state;
> individualism increasing at the cost of communal values. The current
> hegemonic shift is reflected in that the usage of the Norwegian
> equivalents of I/me has increased considerably whereas we/us has been
> stable. Usage of words such as solidarity, common/communal/shared, welfare
> society, duty/obligation and equality has decreased, whereas
> right/entitlement, optional and freedom to choose has increased.
>
> COMMUNITY AND CARE WORK IN A WORLD OF CHANGING IDEOLOGIES
> Authors: Hilde Eileen Nafstad; Erik Carlquist; Rolv Mikkel Blakar (Show
> Biographies)
> DOI: 10.1080/13668800701456302
> Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year
> Community, Work & Family, Volume 10, Issue 3 August 2007 , pages 329 - 340
> Abstract
> Seymour B. Sarason, one of the founders of community psychology, has
> stated the need for developing barometers of community changes. The
> authors present a methodology for identifying societal ideologies,
> ideological shifts and power relations as reflected by the language of
> public discourse. As a case study, systematic analyses of changes in the
> Norwegian language over the last two decades are presented. It is
> demonstrated how Norwegian society has been gradually transformed from a
> traditional Scandinavian welfare society towards the values and ideals of
> neo-liberalist market ideology: for instance, language reflects and
> supports competitive practices increasingly being applied to public
> service provision. Another example is that the public discourse of
> individual rights has gradually been overshadowing the discourse of
> community duties and obligations. On the other hand, the analyses also
> reveal counter-ideologies, reflected, for example, in the launching of new
> words and expressions critical to neo-liberalist ideology.
>
>
>
>
>> Nice bit of content analysis, Craig, but is the really worrying thing
>> that
>> newspapers in our society do not 'contain news' but instead serve the
>> interests of drugs companies or that they are means through which the
>> wider oppressive economic system is reproduced? It is 30 years ago now
>> since Althusser, trying to explain how labour power is reproduced through
>> 'ideological state apparatuses' wrote: "each of them contributes towards
>> this single result in the way proper to it ... The communications
>> apparatus by cramming every 'citizen' with daily doses of nationalism,
>> chauvinism, liberalism, moralism, etc. by means of the press, the radio
>> and television"
>> David
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List on behalf of Craig
>> Newnes
>> Sent: Tue 9/4/2007 23:00
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Yesterday's Guardian
>>
>>
>>
>> Any on the list that still think that newspapers contain news might like
>> to
>> glance at Monday's Guardian. The first 16 pages have 8 + 2/3 pp of ads
>> and
>> 3
>> + 1/2 pp of photos. Various so called stories then tell us that there is
>> a
>> gene for making people taller, working hard at school is good for
>> "anti-social behaviour" - a tautology where I come from, school lunches
>> are
>> healthier than lunch boxes, the EEC is being asked (lobbied) to allow
>> anti-cancer drugs on the NHS, blood pressure pills increase longevity and
>> drug firms are being sued by an "HIV" couple. So, that's 3/4 of
>> available
>> space filled by pics and ads and 1/4 of the remaining are drug company
>> press
>> releases. I rest my case. AND the sudoko is now too easy for words.
>> Craig
>>
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