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2. Chick diffusion, the: how newspapers fail to meet normative expectations regarding their democratic role in public debate
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Garnier, Marie (author), van Wessel, Margit (author), Tamás, Peter A. (author), and van Bommel, Severine (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-12-29
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12745
- Journal Title:
- Journalism Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 23pgs, Media scholarship has commonly regarded newspapers as an essential element of strong democratic societies: a forum that structures public debate, providing engaged citizens with coherent frameworks to identify, interpret and tackle complex issues. Despite general agreement on the merits of this goal, there is little empirical evidence suggesting it approximates the democratic role historically played by newspapers. We examined three decades of newspaper coverage of chicken meat production in the UK to find evidence relevant to the normative expectations of the democratic role of newspapers as forum for public debate, by means of a two-stage framing analysis of 766 relevant articles from seven outlets. We found mutually disconnected episodic coverage of specific issues whose aggregate effect is consistent with the diffusion rather than the structuring of public debate. Newspapers here afforded polemic rather than the systemic contestation expected. The polemic contestation we found, with diffusion of public debate as an emergent political effect, troubles the assumptions subsequent to which it is possible to argue for the democratic role of newspapers.
3. Cover stories: concealing speciesist violence in u.s. news reporting on the COVID-19 “pork” industry crisis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Barca, Lisa A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-03-16
- Published:
- Switzerland: Frontiers Media S.A.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12744
- Journal Title:
- Frontiers in Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 7
- Notes:
- 13pgs, With a focus on journalistic discourse, this paper argues for a re-envisioning of food-system communication that takes non-human animals into account as stakeholders in systems that commodify them. This is especially urgent in light of the global pandemic, which has laid bare the vulnerability to crisis inherent in animal-based food production. As a case study to illustrate the need for a just and non-human inclusive orientation to food-systems communication, the paper performs a qualitative rhetorical examination, of a series of articles in major U.S. news sources in May of 2020, a few months into the economic shutdown in the U.S. in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, millions of pigs were brutally killed on U.S. farms due to the impossibility of killing them in slaughterhouses overrun with COVID-19 outbreaks. The analysis finds that media reporting legitimated violence against pigs by framing narratives from industry perspectives, deflecting agency for violence away from farmers, presenting pigs as willing victims, masking violence through euphemism, objectifying pigs and ignoring their sentience, and uncritically propagating industry rhetoric about “humane” farming. Through these representations, it is argued, the media failed in their responsibility to present the viewpoints of all sentient beings affected by the crisis; in other words, all stakeholders. The methodology merges a textually- oriented approach to critical discourse analysis (CDA) with social critique informed by critical animal studies (CAS), and the essay concludes with recommendations for journalists and other food-system communicators, which should be possible to implement even given the current capitalist, industry-influenced media environment and the demonstrated ruthlessness of animal industries in silencing voices inimical to their profitmaking.
4. Farm Journal cultivates reputation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-03-12
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30280
- Journal Title:
- B to B
- Journal Title Details:
- 92(3) : 30
5. Oops! Is there an upside when good plans go bad?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-04
- Published:
- USA: Cooperative Communicators Association, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30274
- Journal Title:
- Communique
- Notes:
- Via online issue. 1 page.