Discourses of fake news

Wright, Sue

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“… 4. Vamanu (2019: 200–202) states that ‘fake news’ follows a similar pattern; however, the question of similarities and interdependence between fake news and propaganda exceeds the scope of this paper (e.g. Wright, 2021). …”

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“…Trump and other far-right populist agitators continue to use Twitter to spread so-called ‘alternative facts’, conspiracy theories, disinformation, and falsehoods. In this way, they have established direct contact with their followers and are able to demonize and delegitimize professional journalism as ‘fake news’ (Fuchs, 2018; Wright, 2021).…”

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Shameless normalization as a result of media control: The case of Austria

Wodak

2022

Discourse & Society

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Far-right populist parties instrumentalize the media and intervene into processes of mediatization in significantly different ways, depending on socio-political contexts, their position of power, their role in government or opposition and – related to the latter – their specific access to media. In this paper, I focus on one of the many ways propagandistic tools are employed to control the relevant agenda and information being disseminated by both traditional media and online, in other words ‘message control’. Message control illustrates one of many steps of normalization of far-right agenda. The concept of ‘message control’ emerged from the specific propaganda tool developed by the former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his followers and implies launching and thus controlling select information via weekly press conferences, briefings, personal conversations, back-ground conversations ( Hintergrundgespräche), and text messages, and to financially subsidize only those media that reported favorably about the activities of Kurz’s government. Thus, a new media logic based on favoritism, nepotism, and clientelism was established and normalized. This stands in contrast to Trumpism, which delegitimized all investigative journalism without explicitly attempting to control it. Former US President Donald Trump constitutes rather a prime example of Löwenthal and Guterman’, as he instrumentalized far-right and extreme-right media channels (such as Breitbart or Fox News) and extensively used Twitter to spread systematic disinformation.

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Shameless normalization as a result of media control: The case of Austria

Wodak

2022

Discourse & Society

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Refusing to Be Silenced: Critical Journalism, Populism and the Post-truth Condition

Conrad

2024

Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology

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A fundamental rejection of mainstream journalism has become a standard feature in the playbook of populist actors. Beyond a potentially legitimate critique of mainstream journalism, populist actors construe mainstream media as part of a corrupt liberal elite that is out of touch with reality as it is experienced by the pure/authentic people. In the literature on post-truth politics, the populist delegitimation of mainstream media has not yet received much attention, in particular as regards the experiences of journalists who are frequently confronted with physical and/or verbal intimidation and/or abuse. This chapter contributes to the literature on post-truth politics by addressing precisely this gap. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with journalists from prominent German TV outlets, the chapter explores journalists’ experiences and analyzes how such experiences contribute to the development of a post-truth political culture. Based on the intimate link between post-truth politics and populism, the chapter argues that the delegitimation of mainstream journalism has created an increasingly hostile climate for journalists that is reflected in an increasing frequency of verbal and physical attacks on journalists. This development has to be understood as part of an effort to silence the voice of critical journalism. Due to the fact that (liberal) democracy requires that citizens have access to reliable sources of information, efforts to silence the voice of critical journalism therefore need to be seen as a crucial step in the creation of—rather than as the symptom of an already existing—post-truth condition.

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Chapter 8. ‘Coronavirus as a political weapon’

Koca-Helvacı

2022

Science Communication in Times of Crisis

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Discourses of fake news

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Shameless normalization as a result of media control: The case of Austria

Shameless normalization as a result of media control: The case of Austria

Refusing to Be Silenced: Critical Journalism, Populism and the Post-truth Condition

Chapter 8. ‘Coronavirus as a political weapon’

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