Robert X. Browning 
Political Rhetoric and the Media 
The Year in C-SPAN Research, Volume 8

This volume of The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research features analyses of the C-SPAN Video Library, a digital collection of 275, 000 hours of indexed videos, texts, and spoken words. Included in this volume are papers on Rev. Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign, rhetorical analysis of agriculture policy, and an examination of Senator Edward Kennedy’s positions on health care. The text also contains analysis of the “spectacle of committee hearings” and a look at the visuals used in the second Trump impeachment trial.

Table of Content

FOREWORD

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. SHIFTING TELEVISION NEWS VALUES IN CABLE AMERICA, by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

2. TELEVISION, CHAOS, AND REFORM: REVISITING THE MCGOVERN CAMPAIGN VIA THE C-SPAN VIDEO LIBRARY, by Heather Hendershot

3. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF C-SPAN: TELEVISION AND THE JESSE JACKSON CAMPAIGNS, by Allison Perlman

4. SAME MESSENGER, NEW MESSAGE: SENATOR TED KENNEDY AND THE FRAMING OF HEALTH REFORM, by Jennifer Hopper

5. VISUALIZING THE INCITEMENT OF INSURRECTION: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF VISUAL SYMBOLS USED IN DONALD J. TRUMP’S SECOND IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, by Stephanie Wideman, Whitney Tipton, and Laura Merrifield Wilson

6. CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE HEARINGS AS PUBLIC SPECTACLE, by Joshua Guitar, Sheri Bleam, Jenna Thomas, Madeline Studebaker, and Matthew George

7. STRONG MEN, CARING WOMEN? HOW GENDER SHAPES EMOTIONAL POLITICAL RHETORIC, by Jared Mc Donald and Zachary Scott

8. CRACKING THE GLASS CEILING IN THE NEWSROOM: A HISTORICAL EXAMINATION OF WOMEN JOURNALISTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER IN THE MEDIA, by Newly Paul

10. MORAL SENTIMENTS OF U.S. CONGRESS’S FARM BILL DEBATES, 2012–2021, by Jacob A. Miller-Klugesherz

11. DETECTING NONVERBAL AGGRESSION IN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: A DEMONSTRATION AND RATIONALE FOR A CCSE DATA CO-OP, by Erik P. Bucy, Dhavan V. Shah, Zhongkai Sun, William A. Sethares, Porismita Borah, Sang Jung Kim, and Zening Duan

CONCLUSION

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

About the author

Robert X. Browning is a professor of political science and communication at Purdue University. He is the founder and executive director of the C-SPAN Archives, which received a George Foster Peabody Award in 2010 for its online Video Library of 275, 000 hours of C-SPAN content. He is the author of Politics and Social Welfare Policy in the United States and articles on redistricting. He is the editor of the series The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, published annually by Purdue University Press.