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Record W2292752044 · doi:10.14288/1.0093446

Ideological practice in labour news reporting

2010· article· en· W2292752044 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Marilee Reimer Paulson

Bibliographic record

VenuecIRcle (University of British Columbia) · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPublic Relations and Crisis Communication
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIdeologyPublic relationsPolitical scienceLawPolitics

Abstract

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This study of ideology in the news media attempts to describe the ways in which a practical activity such as labour reporting is implicated in a larger process of constructing a view of the world from the perspective and in terms of the enterprises of those who "rule". Ideological practice in this study involves those organizational practices for creating "objective" news accounts which introduce a fundamental source of bias from a management perspective. In Chapter I the social context in which labour news accounts are made in advanced capitalist societies is discussed. She traditional approach to communications theory is criticized as a means to describe how an institutionalized or ""biased" point of view is produced. This approach is rejected in favour of working within the framework of the "social organization of knowledge This is concerned with the understanding of how "factual", documented accounts are constructed in bureaucratically organized settings. In Chapter II and III we examine the practical work activities involved in labour reporting at the "Star", a major Canadian daily newspaper in Western Canada. The practices involved in generating news accounts and establishing their factual status in an organizationally warrantable manner at the "Star" are examined. In Chapter II, three aspects involved in the generation of news accounts are viewed, i.e., those routine practices for locating, defining and writing news accounts. The manner in which, "events" and "facts" are constructed in these processes reveals that the presuppositions regarding "labour" attain practical significance in the procedures for perceiving what could be defined as newsworthy. Chapter III contains a discussion of the methods for documenting these accounts which express a management perspective in the construction of "labour". In this section, the following practices are examined for establishing the factual status of an account in terms of this relation to labour: a) the use of "reliable" sources to authorize an interpretation; b) reference to "objective" standards of interpretation to guard against "bias"; c) how the reporter's opinion on "the story" are separated from "the facts", and d) the production of "facts" through consensus. We conclude that the ordinary, routine procedures for reporting labour news construct a "managerial" conception of "labour" in the media. The ideological practices for "objective" reporting structure the relation of peoples' everyday experiences to their modes of thought about the world. This symbolic mode of action is one aspect of the unequal distribution of knowledge In advanced capita list societies and is a product of the ruling institutions which reproduce the extant relations of domination under capitalism.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.773
Threshold uncertainty score0.370

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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