Curation, Insinuation, and Delegation on RT International News Broadcasts
Abstrak
This chapter focuses on the centerpiece of the network’s television output: RT International. Drawing on content analysis of news broadcasts over two years, the chapter argues that the network typically curates factual news in terms of the topics covered, the expertise platformed, and the resultant framings. Even prior to 2022, however, its coverage differed from that of world-leading international broadcasters, with populist communication postures that included the privileging of stylistic informality and sarcasm, conceived as a performative fight back against mainstream news aesthetics. RT’s self-conscious engagement with mediatization processes during times of normal politics has influenced its news making practices and interactions within the wider global mediasphere, leading it to self-consciously occupy the role of a global populist actor. While ostensibly deriding “identity politics,” RT’s reporting nonetheless constructs the identity of a transnational people to whom it directs its content, of the geopolitical regions on which it reports, and of the network’s own tripartite identity.
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Stephen Hutchings
Vera Tolz
Precious Chatterje-Doody
Rhys Crilley
Marie Gillespie
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- 10.7591/cornell/9781501777639.003.0004
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