ABSTRACT

The aim of this critical discourse analysis is to examine how the agenda and actions of the global protest movement ‘Youth for Climate’ are understood and constructed in Swedish mainstream press and to highlight how the journalistic recontextualization contributes to empowering and disempowering the critical voices and their demands. The article problematizes the journalistic ideal of objectivity in the case of the climate crisis and adds to discussions about the role of media and journalism in the political dynamics surrounding various responses and solutions to the crisis. It suggests that journalism’s objectivity claim hampers the journalistic coverage – what stories can be told and how. This suggestion is based on findings that show how journalism neutralizes conflict and social critique by emptying it of its political content and incorporating it into consensus discourses as well as by focusing on a moral pseudo-struggle that allows journalism to cover conflict without acknowledging real political controversies. It is argued here that journalism contributes to disempowering the climate protests by means of evasive, transformative and emptying discursive strategies.

摘要

这种批判性话语分析的目的是研究瑞典主流媒体如何理解和构建全球抗议运动“气候青年”的议程和行动，并强调新闻重新语境化如何有助于增强和削弱批评声音及其需要。这篇文章在气候危机的情况下对客观性的新闻理想提出了问题，并增加了关于媒体和新闻在围绕危机的各种反应和解决方案的政治动态中的作用的讨论。它表明新闻业的客观性主张阻碍了新闻报道——可以讲述什么故事以及如何讲述。该建议基于的发现表明新闻业如何通过清空其政治内容并将其纳入共识话语以及通过关注允许新闻业报道冲突而不承认真正的政治争议的道德伪斗争来中和冲突和社会批评. 这里有人认为，新闻业通过回避、变革和排空的话语策略来削弱气候抗议的权力。