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Manufacturing Consent, Legitimizing Power: The Dialectic of Media Discourse in Narrating Sheikh Hasina’s Fall Shaikh, Hasan
International Journal of Media and Communication Research Vol. 7 No. 1 (2026): International Journal of Media and Communication Research
Publisher : UIR Press

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25299/ijmcr.v7i1.25114

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Power is rarely taken in silence but is legitimated in words. In the contemporary power conflicts, Sheikh Hasina’s fall appears not only as a political event but also as a well-narrated spectacle, constructed, distorted, and legitimated through the architecture of media discourse. Drawing on the Propaganda Model, this analysis examines how The Daily Star, Bangladesh’s most prominent English-language newspaper, crafts a regime change narrative through carefully designed rhetorical strategies that mask elite and transnational power interests while shaping public consent. Using the tools of language, it paints regime change not as a messy, bitter rupture, but as a natural and necessary correction. To do this, it systematically mutes the voice of Hasina, while amplifying foreign voices, military figures, and the opposition. This is not an oversight; it is a deliberate choice. The media turns military leaders into democratic heroes and protests into powerful myths, all to make this specific version of events feel inevitable and right. Editorial “flak” emerges not as explicit censorship but as tonal calibration and deliberate sourcing choices, effectively shielding dominant actors from critique. In the end, the study shows a media that has traded its watchdog role for that of a master storyteller, building public consent for a narrative that serves elite interests.
Lexical Landscape of Climate Change Discourse in Bangladeshi National Newspapers: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis Shaikh, Hasan; Obaidullah, Dr. Md.
IREELL: Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026): April 2026, Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics and Literature
Publisher : Program Studi Tadris Bahasa Inggris, Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Ilmu Keguruan, Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Syekh Wasil Kediri

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30762/ireell.v4i1.8151

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As climate vulnerability intensifies and environmental debates become increasingly politicized, Bangladeshi national newspapers assume a pivotal role as discursive arenas where climate change is articulated through the socio-political idioms of the nation-state. To investigate how this articulation takes shape, the study applies corpus linguistic methods to a purposefully compiled dataset comprising nearly 350 opinion essays and news reports, amounting to approximately 400,000 tokens, published across three leading Bangla dailies between 2020 and 2025. The analysis reveals a hybridized discursive framework in which scientific credibility is interwoven with emotive resonance, temporal urgency, and developmental-nationalist logic. Rather than foregrounding global mitigation policies, newspapers localize the discourse centering lived vulnerability, infrastructural resilience, and collective agency to foster a participatory, if elite-mediated, climate consciousness. Keyword and concordance patterns further expose an economic framing that underscores aid dependency, financial risk, and global injustice, while simultaneously promoting Bangladesh as a resilient, technologically optimistic, and morally authoritative actor. The discourse privileges policy and academic voices, often marginalizing grassroots and ecological perspectives in favor of narratives that align with neoliberal development agendas. Ultimately, the study argues that Bangladeshi media reconfigures climate change as both an existential peril and a developmental opportunity functioning less as neutral chroniclers and more as discursive architects of a climate-resilient nationalism embedded in global political ecologies.