Comparing Populist Media: From Fox News to the Young Turks, From Cable to YouTube, From Right to Left

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Reece Peck
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Abstract

This article compares populist media styles on US cable news and in online video. It juxtaposes the conservative cable giant Fox News with the progressive YouTube-based network the Young Turks (TYT). TYT stands as one of YouTube’s longest running and most successful “news and politics” channels on the platform. This progressive digital network has long embraced a populist anchoring style that resembles Fox News and the style of its conservative YouTube competitors. This study establishes the stylistic affinity between TYT and Fox News and then explains how it is driven by a similar commercial-economic logic that prizes “loyal” viewership and “intense” engagement above all else. Shifting from political economy to media activism, this article also chronicles TYT’s role in creating the Justice Democrats, the progressive PAC that recruited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other “Squad” members. This article seeks to complicate the commonly held association between populism and political conservatism.
比较民粹主义媒体:从福克斯新闻到土耳其年轻人,从有线电视到YouTube,从右到左
本文比较了美国有线电视新闻和网络视频中的民粹主义媒体风格。它将保守的有线电视巨头福克斯新闻与基于youtube的进步网络青年土耳其人(TYT)并列。TYT是YouTube平台上运营时间最长、最成功的“新闻与政治”频道之一。这个进步的数字网络长期以来一直奉行民粹主义的主播风格,类似于福克斯新闻(Fox News)及其保守的竞争对手YouTube的风格。这项研究确立了TYT和福克斯新闻在风格上的相似性,然后解释了它们是如何被一种类似的商业经济逻辑所驱动的,这种逻辑将“忠诚”的观众和“强烈”的参与置于一切之上。从政治经济学转向媒体行动主义,本文还记录了TYT在创建正义民主党(Justice Democrats)中所扮演的角色,这个进步的政治行动委员会(PAC)招募了亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯(Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)和其他“小队”成员。本文试图将民粹主义与政治保守主义之间的普遍联系复杂化。
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期刊介绍: Television & New Media explores the field of television studies, focusing on audience ethnography, public policy, political economy, cultural history, and textual analysis. Special topics covered include digitalization, active audiences, cable and satellite issues, pedagogy, interdisciplinary matters, and globalization, as well as race, gender, and class issues.
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