In today's polarized society it has become more important
to position yourself either to the right or the left politicallt.
As a result more new upcoming news sites are considering
themselves as alternative media. But if you only follow
alternative media, how much new information do you
really get? What information is lost based on how the
alternative media chooses to portray various news events?
In this qualitative study about alternative media objectivity
and independence regarding the coverage of scandals. The
purpose has been to investigate how alternative media's
coverage of scandals differs depending on which political
party that acted scandalously. We have used two theoretical
frameworks to answer the purpose and those are framing
and scandal as a mediated event. The method we have used
is a critical discourse analysis where we have analysed a
total of 24 articles from the alternative media`s Bulletin
and Dagens ETC.
The result showed that the coverage of news events doesn't
differ a lot and that they often rewrite articles from
traditional news media. Dagens ETC is often more
consistent than Bulletin in the way they frame
unregardining which political party they are covering.
Bulletin is often more defending against a political party
that is closer to their own political party than Dagens Etc.
Lastly we have seen that Bulletin publishes more news
articles than Dagens ETC regarding scandals made by a
political party with a different political ideology.
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