ABSTRACT

Focusing on the salient case of news interviewing, this paper investigates the role of journalism in the normalization of radical right-wing politics and the discourses of nationalism and nativism. Normalization is related to transformations in the socio-political landscape, the discursive strategies of political actors, the professional norms of journalism, and the discursive positioning of political views in news reporting. Data include news interviews with the leaders of the Swedish right-wing populist party, the Swedish Democrats. A discourse- and conversation analytical approach is applied to analyze the discursive representations and positioning of political views in four different contexts of interviewing: routine news events, political scandals, live two-party interviews, and set piece interviews. The study shows an overall tendency to normalize and legitimize the political views and language of the radical right. Distinctive practices and mechanisms are identified. The study highlights the challenges of journalism, related to the normalizing implications of the restricted forms of impartiality applied in news journalism.

摘要

针对新闻采访的突出案例，本文研究了新闻业在激进右翼政治规范化以及民族主义和本土主义话语中的作用。规范化与社会政治格局的转变，政治角色的话语策略，新闻业的专业规范以及新闻报道中政治观点的话语定位有关。数据包括对瑞典右翼民粹党领导人瑞典民主党的新闻采访。运用话语和对话分析方法，在例行新闻事件，政治丑闻，现场两党访谈和固定访谈中，在四种不同的访谈环境中分析话语表征和政治观点的定位。研究表明，总体趋势趋向于规范和合法化激进权利的政治观点和语言。确定了独特的实践和机制。该研究突出了新闻业面临的挑战，这与新闻新闻业所应用的有限形式的公正性的规范化含义有关。