Reporting the news: How Breitbart derives legitimacy from recontextualised news

IF 2.4 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-06-16 DOI:10.1177/09579265221095422

Jason Roberts, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

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Abstract

The alternative right-wing news website Breitbart has been a subject of increased academic scrutiny following the election of Donald Trump as U.S. President in 2016. Due to its prominence during the campaign, where it became the most significant news website within the conservative media sphere. Breitbart remains highly influential within the conservative media sphere, particularly as a result of its attacks on mainstream media actors and organisations, which remain a prominent feature of its coverage and represent an ongoing form of metajournalistic discourse in the struggle to define the boundaries of journalism. This paper seeks to examine how Breitbart builds journalistic authority and legitimacy amongst their readership as a result of attacks on liberal and conservative journalists alike, emotionally appealing to normative, ‘common-sense’ understandings of journalism. In particular, Breitbart frequently use recontextualised news as a method of attacking oppositional journalism whilst simultaneously bolstering their own journalistic credentials. We argue that in a media ecology in which emotional content is prioritised in order to commodify the anger of citizens, practices of recontextualisation will continue to play an important role in the battle over the boundaries of acceptable journalistic practice.

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报道新闻:布莱巴特如何从重新语境化的新闻中获得合法性

2016年唐纳德·特朗普当选美国总统后，另类右翼新闻网站Breitbart受到了越来越多的学术审查。由于其在竞选期间的突出地位，它成为保守派媒体领域最重要的新闻网站。布莱巴特在保守派媒体领域仍然具有高度影响力，特别是由于其对主流媒体行为者和组织的攻击，这仍然是其报道的一个突出特点，并代表了在界定新闻界边界的斗争中正在进行的元新闻话语形式。本文试图研究布莱巴特是如何在读者中建立新闻权威和合法性的，因为他们对自由派和保守派记者都进行了攻击，在情感上呼吁对新闻业的规范、“常识”理解。特别是，布莱巴特经常使用重新文本化的新闻作为攻击反对派新闻业的一种方法，同时巩固自己的新闻资格。我们认为，在一个优先考虑情感内容以将公民愤怒商品化的媒体生态中，重新文本化的做法将继续在争夺可接受新闻实践边界的斗争中发挥重要作用。

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期刊介绍： Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.