This commentary reviews the continuing discussion about the use of the concept of ‘ideology’ in media research, connecting back to earlier dimensions of the debate and the problems that developed around its varying usage. It engages with the attempt to reinstate the idea as an organising concept in the analysis of power, looking at some of the ways in which the media’s work in the brokering of power relations remains in need of further understanding.
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