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From the “Little Aussie Bleeder” to Newstopia: (Really) Fake News in Australia

Harrington, Stephen·2012·Popular Communication
DOI 10.1080/15405702.2012.638571
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This article offers an overview of the key characteristics of “fake” news in the Australian national context. Focusing on two television shows, The Norman Gunston Show and Newstopia, it historicizes “fake” news within Australian television culture, situating it as part of a broader tradition of what CitationTurner (1989) calls “Transgressive TV.” After analyzing the core comedic themes, styles, and intertextual relationships of both shows, the article concludes that, although news parody in Australia has tended to be highly fictionalized, it may nevertheless play a vital role in helping viewers better understand generic devices that frame and govern “real” television news.

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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 [14]

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Authors
Harrington, S.
Affiliations
Queensland University of Technology (AU)
Corresponding author
Harrington, Stephen
ORCID
Harrington, Stephen
Venue
Popular Communication
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2012-01
Volume
10
Issue
1-2
Pages
27-39
ISSN
  • 1540-5702 (ISSN-L)
  • 1540-5710
DOI
10.1080/15405702.2012.638571
OpenAlex
W2083200135
Cited by
11
References
15
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
FWCI
1.93
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 › Misinformation and Its Impacts
Keywords
fake news, Australian television, television comedy, intertextuality, news framing, history of television news

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