I suggest the Morning Star: the world's only socialist daily. But I wish
they'd get rid of the wasteful 2 pages of sport!
> 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]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 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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