Populism, the media, and the mainstreaming of the far right

The Guardian ’s coverage of populism as a case study

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7973495
AutoresKaty Brown (0000-0001-5405-2322), Aurelien Mondon (0000-0002-3453-7821)
Año2021
Volumen41
Número3
Páginas279-295
Fecha de publicación2021-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0032-3268 • E-ISSN: 1467-9256
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0263395720955036
OpenAlexW3090955814
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas84
Referencias citadas28

Populism seems to define our current political age. The term is splashed across the headlines, brandished in political speeches and commentaries, and applied extensively in numerous academic publications and conferences. This pervasive usage, or populist hype, has serious implications for our understanding of the meaning of populism itself and for our interpretation of the phenomena to which it is applied. In particular, we argue that its common conflation with far-right politics, as well as its breadth of application to other phenomena, has contributed to the mainstreaming of the far right in three main ways: (1) agenda-setting power and deflection, (2) euphemisation and trivialisation, and (3) amplification. Through a mixed-methods approach to discourse analysis, this article uses The Guardian newspaper as a case study to explore the development of the populist hype and the detrimental effects of the logics that it has pushed in public discourse

Guardian · Interpretation (philosophy · Law and economics · Linguistics · Mainstreaming · Media studies · Newspaper · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Populism, Right-Wing Movements