Title: News on the Right : studying conservative news cultures /
Authors: Nadler, Anthony M., 1978-; Bauer, A. J. 1984-
Year: 2020
Subjects: Conservatism in the press United States.; Mass media Political aspects United States; Right and left (Political science) United States.; Conservatism in the press; Mass media Political aspects; Politics and government; United States Politics and government; United States
Abstract: From the National Review to Breitbart, from Fox News to Rush Limbaugh, conservative news is an inescapable feature of modern politics. Since the early days of mass communication, right-wing media producers have blended reporting with commentary, narrating the news of the day from a perspective informed by conservative worldviews and partisanship. News on the Right seeks to initiate a new interdisciplinary field of scholarly research focused on the study of right-wing media and conservative news. Editors Anthony Nadler and A.J. Bauer gather a range of voices, presenting an interdisciplinary investigation into the practices and patterns of meaning-making in the production, circulation, and consumption of conservative news. Traversing journalism, media and communication studies, cultural studies, history, political science, and sociology, this volume utilizes a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods to elucidate case studies of conservative news cultures in the US and UK. Together, these perspectives show that a fuller understanding of right-wing media and its effects can be reached by treating these phenomena as deeply interwoven into many conservatives' lives and political sensibilities.
Contents: "From a Christian perspective" : news/talk in evangelical mass media / Mark Ward Sr -- Containing "country music Marxism" : how fox news conservatized John Rich's "Shuttin detroit down" / Reece Peck -- Weaponizing victimhood : discourses of oppression and the maintenance of supremacy on the right / Lee Bebout -- NRA media and second amendment identity politics / Dawn R. Gilpin -- Making media safe for corporate power : market libertarian discourse in the 1940s and beyond / Victor Pickard -- Conservative news and movement infrastructure / Alex DiBranco -- The British right-wing mainstream and the European referendum / Angela Phillips -- Cultivating distrust of the mainstream media : -- Propagandists for a liberal machine and the American establishment / Julie B. Lane -- National review and the changing narrative of civil rights memory : 1968-2016 / Robert Greene, II -- Slanting the news : media bias and its effects / Anthony DiMaggio -- Bridging the marginal and the mainstream : methodological considerations for conservative news as a subfield / Mark Major -- Conservative news studies : mapping an unrealized field / Anthony Nadler and A.J. Bauer.