Talk:Western media
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Radicalizing & extremizing edit
Western media has been radicalizing & extremizing their populations to murder even more Muslims
Section blanking edit
Two sections under "Criticism" were systematically blanked by a group of editors. Please explain yourselves. Thank you. STSC (talk) 08:42, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
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Text not supported by cited sources / unreliable opinion sources used for statement of fact WP:SYNTH edit
Some recently added text is not clearly supported by cited sources, or is clearly improper synthesis of sources, including (but not limited to):
Western media is seen by its supporters as impartial and free.[1] In spite of this, Western media has been demonstrated to contain biased material or coverage of certain countries or groups, usually aligning itself with staunch criticisms of those countries still independent of Western interests and dismissing human rights abuses against nationalities by Western countries and their allies.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
References
- ^ "World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: Communication and Information Sector United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Regional overview of WESTERN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA" (PDF). 2014. p. 7.
The freedom to publish in the 27 countries of the Western Europe and North America region has remained strong and widely upheld ...
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help); line feed character in|quote=at position 83 (help) - ^ Malek, Abbas (1997). News Media and Foreign Relations: A Multifaceted Perspective. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 53. ISBN 9781567502732.
- ^ Danny Hayes (3 Feb 2010). "Whose Views Made the News? Media Coverage and the March to War in Iraq".
Second, in the event that the perspectives of international figures do appear in the news, they are likely to be accorded little credibility by the American public—either because of a low "default" level of legitimacy or because mass media during policy debates explicitly portray foreign actors as hostile to U.S. interests—rendering them inconsequential as opposition cues for mass attitude formation and change.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Robinson, Piers (2016-08-02). "Russian news may be biased – but so is much western media | Piers Robinson". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-06-09.
- ^ "How the Western media gets it wrong on Rwanda". The New Times | Rwanda. 2017-08-17. Retrieved 2018-06-10.
- ^ Jing Ke (2008). "Did the US Media Reflect the Reality of the Kosovo War in an Objective Manner? A Case Study of The Washington Post and The Washington Times" (PDF). University of Rhode Island.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Andrei P Tsygankov (18 April 2016). "The dark double: the American media perception of Russia as a neo-Soviet autocracy, 2008–2014". journals.sagepub.com.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Kalyani Chadha, Anandam P. Kavoori (July 2000). "Media imperialism revisited: Some findings from the Asian case" (PDF). p. 416.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Boyd-Barrett, J. Oliver (1981). "WESTERN NEWS AGENCIES AND THE "MEDIA IMPERIALISM" DEBATE: WHAT KIND OF DATA-BASE?". Journal of International Affairs. 35 (2): 247–260.
- ^ Arnold S de Beer (24 Feb 2007). "Mass media coverage of developing countries: a functional approach".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. August 1985.
- ^ Abrahms, Max (2017-10-30). "Syria's Extremist Opposition". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2018-06-09.
The text and sources, as they previously stood, suffered from two main problems. First, some of the sources are opinion sources simply unreliable for statements of fact. Second, the sources don't directly support the text - they are cobbled together to make a conclusion (WP:SYNTH). Specifically:
- Most of these sources only discuss particular conflicts. They do not discuss the "Western media" generally or make sweeping conclusions. This kind of material belongs at Media coverage of the Iraq War, Media coverage of the Syrian Civil War, etc. The 1985 Bulletin of Atomic Scientists article doesn't use the phrase "Western media" onc.
- Most of these sources are opinion pieces. For example, the Piers Robinson is an op-ed column for the Guardian (their "Comment is Free" section).
- Some of these citations are incredibly dated (one from 1981 and one from 1985). These sources can't be used for current claims.
- Some sources are just plain poor and unusable. These include this student essay and this op-ed written by a Rwandan goverment official.
I have gone through systematically, removing the bad sources but retaining the good sources and added appropriate summaries and context for each (with appropriate in-text attribution where required), explaining what exactly each source says. Neutralitytalk 03:27, 10 June 2018 (UTC) '
Columbia Journalism Review edit
FYI, the Columbia Journalism Review citation accidentally had the URL for the New Statesman article that is a different cite later. I have fixed the URL and re-inserted text supported by Columbia Journalism Review, namely that RT was established as a soft-power tool and propaganda instrument. Neutralitytalk 03:58, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
- SUM1 has raised the concern that the Columbia Journalism Review is an "opinion piece" - I don't really accept this characterization, but as a compromise measure I will give in-text attribution. Thanks, Neutralitytalk 20:47, 13 June 2018 (UTC)