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Lie, John Husting, Virginia Ann 2015-09-28T15:01:08Z 2015-09-28T15:01:08Z 10000-01-01 1998 1998 The news on abortion-related protest in 1991 ultimately constructs a narrowly defined vision of abortion-related activism in which there are three main actors; extremist pro-lifers, extremist pro-choicers, and regular people like us. In addition, the news's polarization of the issue, and its silence on structural problems like racism, poverty, and sexism, help keep the conflict over abortion irresolvable while marginalizing activism. The news, then, constructs a mythical, homogeneous community of 'Americans like us' whose boundaries are shored up by the outsiders or activists ('them'). Through these portrayals the news works to dismantle potent critiques of American society and politics that activism offers. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:01:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9904484.pdf: 9755396 bytes, checksum: 333b4ae32946cc229a4037fb2770cece (MD5) Previous issue date: 1998 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 87526 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 174 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/86245 (MiAaPQ)AAI9904484 eng Journalism Manufacturing Dissent: The News on Abortion-Related Protest in 1991 text Sociology Sociology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.