Tabe Bergman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4503307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tabe Bergman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tabe |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergman |
| SIGNATURE | BERGMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3368-4336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Media, Dissidence and the War in Ukraine
Fake WMDs all over again? How Dutch newspapers supported western propaganda on an alleged chemical attack in Syria
History shows that wherever there is war, there is propaganda. In part for that reason it is often difficult to discover the truth about events that take place during war. For instance, many initially believed the western assertions that a chemical attack took place in the Syrian city of Douma in April 2018 and that the Syrian government was responsible. Yet it has become increasingly clear that it is more likely than not that the alleged attack …
Journalism and Foreign Policy
Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention
Prophet, Gadfly, Polemicist, Conscience of America
As a contribution to the scholarship on the US media's reporting of dissidence, this article assesses the treatment of Noam Chomsky's books on politics and media in four US newspapers. It documents and explains the fluctuations in attention over time. A content analysis shows that a sizeable majority of reviews were negative, but also that the press reception was quite varied. A qualitative assessment demonstrates that reviewers largely failed to…
Following Washington’s lead
By examining the Dutch press’s reporting on the run-up to the war in Iraq this paper provides evidence that Dutch foreign news is structurally biased in favor of the interests of political and economic elites. Despite a priori plausibility and already existing supporting evidence, this observation is rarely made in the scholarship, in part because the Dutch field of communication scholarship lacks a coherent political-economic perspective. This p…
Liberal or Radical? Rethinking Dutch Media History
What James Curran calls the liberal meta-narrative of media history is the standard framework employed in describing the trajectory of the Dutch media. Yet much evidence indicates that throughout the twentieth century the Dutch media have more commonly served elite interests than the public interest. Initially the media were subservient to politics, later the market became dominant. This paper criticises the liberal reading of Dutch media history…
Liberal or Radical? Rethinking Dutch Media History
What James Curran calls the liberal meta-narrative of media history is the standard framework employed in describing the trajectory of the Dutch media. Yet much evidence indicates that throughout the twentieth century the Dutch media have more commonly served elite interests than the public interest. Initially the media were subservient to politics, later the market became dominant. This paper criticises the liberal reading of Dutch media history…
Following Washington’s lead
By examining the Dutch press’s reporting on the run-up to the war in Iraq this paper provides evidence that Dutch foreign news is structurally biased in favor of the interests of political and economic elites. Despite a priori plausibility and already existing supporting evidence, this observation is rarely made in the scholarship, in part because the Dutch field of communication scholarship lacks a coherent political-economic perspective. This p…
Liberal or Radical? Rethinking Dutch Media History
What James Curran calls the liberal meta-narrative of media history is the standard framework employed in describing the trajectory of the Dutch media. Yet much evidence indicates that throughout the twentieth century the Dutch media have more commonly served elite interests than the public interest. Initially the media were subservient to politics, later the market became dominant. This paper criticises the liberal reading of Dutch media history…
Prophet, Gadfly, Polemicist, Conscience of America
As a contribution to the scholarship on the US media's reporting of dissidence, this article assesses the treatment of Noam Chomsky's books on politics and media in four US newspapers. It documents and explains the fluctuations in attention over time. A content analysis shows that a sizeable majority of reviews were negative, but also that the press reception was quite varied. A qualitative assessment demonstrates that reviewers largely failed to…
Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention
Fake WMDs all over again? How Dutch newspapers supported western propaganda on an alleged chemical attack in Syria
History shows that wherever there is war, there is propaganda. In part for that reason it is often difficult to discover the truth about events that take place during war. For instance, many initially believed the western assertions that a chemical attack took place in the Syrian city of Douma in April 2018 and that the Syrian government was responsible. Yet it has become increasingly clear that it is more likely than not that the alleged attack …
Journalism and Foreign Policy
Media, Dissidence and the War in Ukraine
Political science (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Content analysis (2 works)