Not Necessarily Not the News: Gatekeeping, Remediation, and The Daily Show

“The Tattlers' Tattle”: Fake News, Linguistic National Intimacy, and New Media in Romania

“…In other words, Cronica appropriates an official piece of information and remediates it, furthering its own narrative, "making it strange," or defamiliarizing it. As McKain (2005) has noted, the point is not that the "real news" indexes to comedians in order to gatekeep or to interject instances that are funny, but that despite the façade of benign joking, something more serious is going on.…”

F for Fake: Propaganda! Hoaxing! Hacking! Partisanship! and Activism! in the Fake News Ecology

“…To complete the picture, scholars of fake news have also identified the form as an important global voice (Baym and Jones) in the articulation of social criticism and social justice. Due to its explicit ties to journalism, fake news offers significant opportunities to galvanize an informed citizenry grounded in common sense (Boler), to enact a model of deliberative democracy (Baym), to expand the range and breadth of mainstream media news discourse (Day, “And Now”; Jones; McKain), to interrogate power through “heterogeneous and nonconventional approaches to reporting on politicians and political issues” (Harrington; Berkowitz and Schwartz), to function as media criticism (Borden and Tew), and to serve as a critical check on Fourth Estate journalism (Sotos).…”

The Let Down Effect

“…Although the entertainment focus of TDS makes it hard to classify it as News, it does have a clear informative purpose and likely provides its audience with news (McKain, 2005). Although the entertainment focus of TDS makes it hard to classify it as News, it does have a clear informative purpose and likely provides its audience with news (McKain, 2005).…”