Newspaper Construction of a Moral Farmer

Bibliographic Data

ID2281458
AuthorsAnn Reisner (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume68
Issue1
Pages46-63
Publication date2003-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRural Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0036-0112 • E-ISSN: 1549-0831
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1549-0831.2003.tb00128.x
OpenAlexW2056686594
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited27

This study examines how six national newspapers balanced supporting agriculture (a morally good occupation) with supporting environ-mentalism (nature as a moral value), in an area in which agricultural and environmental interests conflict-farm use of pesticides. The study showed that, contrary to expectations, newspapers supported social change (were largely critical of pesticide use and sympathetic to organic agriculture). Farmers were portrayed positively as quiet social movement participants, and newspapers suggested that government and universities were blocking infrastructural change that should be supported. The study contradicts earlier theories of the press and social movements that suggest that newspapers contain, rather than promote, social change

Agriculture · Geography · Government (linguistics · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Social change · Social science · Sociology · Animal and Plant Science Education · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Law · Media Studies and Communication

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