@article {Husting:2006:1479-1420:162,
title = "Neutralizing Protest: The Construction of War, Chaos, and National Identity through US Television News on Abortion-Related Protest, 1991",
journal = "Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies",
parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/rccc",
publishercode ="routledg",
year = "2006",
volume = "3",
number = "2",
publication date ="2006-06-01T00:00:00",
pages = "162-180",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1479-1420",
eissn = "1479-4233",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rccc/2006/00000003/00000002/art00004",
doi = "doi:10.1080/14791420600633089",
keyword = "National Identity, Democracy, News, Agonism, Abortion",
author = "Husting, Ginna",
abstract = "This paper examines how US TV news on abortion-related protest forecloses possibilities for democracy and political action. Representing abortion-related activism as a battle, news segments portray activists, correspondents, and viewers as villains, witnesses, and victims in a tale of a nation decimated by civil war. While activists describe their work militaristically, the news's war is not the war that activists describe. News discourse represents activists as threatening the American family/community/nation. Applying Hannah Arendt's and Mary Douglas's work shows how the news eclipses public spheres by mapping a pollution narrative onto those who threaten myths of national homogeneity and proper citizenship.",
}