ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the discourse of far-right alternative media, and the related challenges to the authority and the normative foundations of professional news journalism. Three aspects are analyzed and illustrated: (1) the discursive strategies adopted in far-right news in order to position themselves as an alternative, while discrediting legacy media and attacking their professional claims of impartiality, autonomy, and veracity, (2) the style of reporting in hybrid – factual and opinionated – far-right news, which concurrently mimic and override established genre conventions of news reporting, and (3) the liberal/authoritarian value conflicts enacted in the contrastive framings of news events in far-right and mainstream news. These conflicts ultimately destabilize the values based on which impartiality is claimed by mainstream journalism.
