Matt Carlson, Sue Robinson, and Seth C. Lewis, <i>News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture</i>

Tennant, J. Ian

doi:10.1177/07395329221124450

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“…In times of identity-driven politics and increasing polarization, journalism struggles to adapt to the needs of the media culture (Carlson et al, 2022). The consolidation of digital technologies has contributed to a polarization of politics (Papacharissi, 2015), since in social media people tend to follow users with their political predispositions.…”

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“…The problem is not only the loss of an in-depth rational discussion but also the proliferation of inaccurate information, especially triggered by populist leaders. In this sense, a kind of misinformation society emerges (Pickard, 2019) since the role of news gatekeeper is now performed by social media platforms (Carlson et al, 2022). Hence, the traditional modes of the journalism craft are no longer effective (Bennett and Livingston, 2018;Casero-Ripollés et al, 2023).…”

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Effects of populism: The agenda of fact-checking agencies to counter European right-wing populist parties

Rivas-de-Roca,

Pérez-Curiel,

Casero-Ripollés

2023

European Journal of Communication

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European right-wing populism is a widely studied phenomenon in recent years. At the same time, many fact-checking projects have been launched with the purpose of assessing statements from the most relevant social actors. The role of fact-checkers is growing, but there is scant literature on their agenda. In this study, we investigate the communication strategies on Twitter of European right-wing populist parties and their relationship with the agenda of fact-checking initiatives in Germany, France, Spain and Portugal. Based on a content analysis of tweets covering political content ( n = 4212), we analyze not only the agenda but also the use of propaganda mechanisms and the scope of the tweets. The results show how the agenda of right-wing populism was composed of ideological thematic issues. Fact-checkers focus on competitor leaders and generate lower interaction. These findings contribute to increasing research on both actors, arguing that the focus on political leaders impacts on fact-checking.

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Section: The Role Of Fact-checking Platforms Against Disinformationmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Effects of populism: The agenda of fact-checking agencies to counter European right-wing populist parties

Rivas-de-Roca,

Pérez-Curiel,

Casero-Ripollés

2023

European Journal of Communication

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“…This study undertakes to understand how political journalists conceptualize the role of the editorial endorsements in the context of, and in response to, the 2016 U.S. presidential election as a critical incident within the field (Boczkowski & Papacharissi, 2018;Carlson et al, 2021;Gutsche, 2018;Lewis et al, 2021;Scacco & Coe, 2021). This was done through 64 long-form interviews with U.S.-based political journalists.…”

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Guarding the Firewall: How Political Journalists Distance Themselves From the Editorial Endorsement Process

Perreault

Kananovich

Hackett

2022

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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Through a lens of boundary work and role conception, this study seeks to understand how political journalists discursively construct the role of the newspaper editorial endorsement. Researchers conducted long-form interviews with political journalists in the United States ( n = 64) to understand how journalists conducted boundary work relative to endorsements. Journalists argued that the 2016 election was a decisive event in which political news endorsements lost their original objective. Political journalists described laboring to discursively distance themselves from the endorsement process and viewed political endorsements not only as ineffective, but also as jeopardizing their news organizations’ independence.

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“…The importance of these networks in the political media landscape has led to a shifting media culture, in which journalism has a precarious position (Carlson et al, 2022). In this framework, there was also a phenomenon of news avoidance to protect perceived well-being during the first months of the COVID-19 crisis (de Bruin et al, 2021).…”

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Global political leaders during the COVID-19 vaccination: Between propaganda and fact-checking

Rivas-de-Roca¹,

Curiel²

2023

Polit. life sci.

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The advent of COVID-19 vaccination meant a moment of hope after months of crisis communication. However, the context of disinformation on social media threatened the success of this public health campaign. This study examines how heads of government and fact-checking organizations in four countries managed communications on Twitter about the vaccination. Specifically, we conduct a content analysis of their discourses through the observation of propaganda mechanisms. The research draws on a corpus of words related to the pandemic and vaccines in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States (n = 2,800). The data were captured for a five-month period (January–May 2021), during which COVID-19 vaccines became available for elderly people. The results show a trend of clearly fallacious communication among the political leaders, based on the tools of emphasis and appeal to emotion. We argue that the political messages about the vaccination mainly used propaganda strategies. These tweets also set, to a certain extent, the agendas of the most relevant fact-checking initiatives in each country.

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Matt Carlson, Sue Robinson, and Seth C. Lewis, News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture

Cited by 9 publications

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Effects of populism: The agenda of fact-checking agencies to counter European right-wing populist parties

Effects of populism: The agenda of fact-checking agencies to counter European right-wing populist parties

Guarding the Firewall: How Political Journalists Distance Themselves From the Editorial Endorsement Process

Global political leaders during the COVID-19 vaccination: Between propaganda and fact-checking

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