caa a22 4500 445822473 CHVBK 20180317145248.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11186-011-9143-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11186-011-9143-7 Norton Matthew Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, PO Box 208265, 06520-8265, New Haven, CT, USA aut A structural hermeneutics of The O'Reilly Factor [Elektronische Daten] [Matthew Norton] There has been a significant rise in opinion and talk-based programming on American cable news channels since the mid-1990s. These news analysis programs are often politically partisan in their interpretive approach. This article examines one of the most prominent and popular of these shows, The O'Reilly Factor using the theoretical tools of structural hermeneutics. The program produces a radically simple and partisan schema for interpreting the news, but to do so it relies on the constructed persona of the host, a complex underlying meaning structure formulated around binary oppositions, and a number of rhetorical techniques. The show simplifies, but is not itself simple. To simplify the news in a way that suggests partisan conclusions that still seem relevant rather than cartoonish, individual episodes and segments of the show frame issues in terms of a meaning structure that leads strongly to partisan conclusions, but affords an appearance of the reasonable consideration of diverse views. It is suggested that this kind of deep analysis of meaning structures is important for making sense of how news analysis programs and mediated partisanship function as a cultural system. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Media nationallicence News analysis nationallicence Structural hermeneutics nationallicence Partisanship nationallicence Cultural systems nationallicence Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/3(2011-05-01), 315-346 0304-2421 40:3<315 2011 40 11186 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9143-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9143-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Norton Matthew Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, PO Box 208265, 06520-8265, New Haven, CT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/3(2011-05-01), 315-346 0304-2421 40:3<315 2011 40 11186 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer