The liberal field of journalism and the political – The New York Times, Fox News and the Tea Party

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7477987
AutoresOlivier Jutel (0000-0001-6630-614X, University of the South Pacific, Fiji, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume17
Fascículo8
Páginas1129-1145
Data de publicação2015-08-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884915599949
OpenAlexW1836353757
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas9

This article looks at the challenge posed to the liberal field of journalism by Tea Party populism and Fox News’ attempt to claim the cultural capital of journalism. The Tea Party have defied expectations of a political and rhetorical normalization, declaring liberalism and the New York Times as iredeemable enemies of the populist people. The Times’ coverage of the Tea Party, analyzed in this article, assumes an importance beyond merely covering a political story as it articulates the present state of the field and its understanding of the political. What this author finds is a normative liberal universalist interpretation of the Tea Party movement between the pessimissm of Lippmann or the redemptive humanism of Dewey. The populists are either treated as irrational pseudo-political actors or the credibility of the field is bestowed upon them as the redemptive embodiment of democracy. Neither approach is able to explain populism’s immutable antagonism at an ontological level or the persistence of the Tea Party’s fetishized notion of an America reconciled in private property

Epistemology · Journalism · Liberalism · Media studies · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Tea party · Music History and Culture · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Law · Philosophy