Open AccessAny Role for Mock News? Normative Journalism through Barcelona’s and the Daily Show’s Critical Narratives
Author(s) -
Phellipy Pereira Jácome
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
brazilian journalism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1981-9854
pISSN - 1808-4079
DOI - 10.25200/bjr.v12n2.2016.880
Subject(s) - journalism , narrative , objectivity (philosophy) , normative , irony , wonder , media studies , sociology , hegemony , political science , citizen journalism , epistemology , art , literature , law , philosophy , politics
From the characterization of a normative discourse of journalism, this article seeks to investigate the role played by contemporary meta-journalistic media outlets that question this normativity. With examples of an Argentine print publication and an American TV show, we wonder how such products used textual forms and narrative strategies that could be recognized as "typical journalistic" to confront, through irony and parody, the ways in which the hegemonic journalistic outlets configure their realities. Our hypothesis is that the narrative techniques of these publications serve as indices of a depletion of journalistic objectivity procedures.