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News Parody in Global Perspective: Politics, Power, and Resistance

Baym, Geoffrey, Jones, Jeffrey P.·2012·Popular Communication
DOI 10.1080/15405702.2012.638566
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As scholarly examinations of the US news parody programs The Daily Show and The Colbert Report multiply, we must recognize that American satirists claim no monopoly on the genre. Upon closer inspection, news parody appears as a truly universal phenomenon; in any culture where television is used as a means of disseminating authoritative information about the real, parody—what some have labeled, or mislabeled “fake news”—plays an increasingly important discursive function. In this article, we provide an overview of international forms of news parody and political satire as they take shape across continents and cultures. We consider the global flow of parody formats, and the multiple ways in which news parody adapts to differing political, economic, and regulatory contexts. Further, we explore the semiotic labor that parody performs in deconstructing broadcast news and wider discourses of authority. Finally, we discuss the political significance of global news parody and the role the genre plays as a popular response to power.

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  • Fake news across the spectrum, even the most innocuous satire, has arguably led to increasingly blurred lines between what is seen as real news and what is seen as fake, resulting in a gradual decline of trust in traditional real, or 'hard' news sources.

    “Moreover fake news across the spectrum, even the most innocuous satire, has arguably [3,14,15] also led to increasingly blurred lines between what is seen as real news and what is seen as fake, resulting in a gradual decline of trust in traditional real, or 'hard' news sources [16].”

    From Falling for Fake News: Investigating the Consumption of News via Social Media (2018) · cites this paper as [3]

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Authors
Baym, G., & Jones, J. P.
Affiliations
  • University of North Carolina at Greensboro (US)
  • Old Dominion University (US)
Corresponding author
Baym, Geoffrey
Venue
Popular Communication
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2012-01
Volume
10
Issue
1-2
Pages
2-13
ISSN
  • 1540-5702 (ISSN-L)
  • 1540-5710
DOI
10.1080/15405702.2012.638566
OpenAlex
W2043970480
Cited by
100
References
18
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 9
FWCI
13.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Popular Communication (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Humor Studies and Applications
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Media Studies and Communication
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Discourse and Social Analysis
Keywords
political satire, fake news, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, broadcast news, authority, resistance to power, television satire, media regulation

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