Essays about: "Breitbart News"

Found 3 essays containing the words Breitbart News.

1. 1. Representations of United States Public Healthcare Policy in Right-Wing Media: A Case Study of Breitbart News Articles During the 2020 Presidential Election

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Rachel Occhiogrosso-Schwartz; [2021]
   Keywords : healthcare; universal healthcare; medicare for all; mfa; affordable care act; aca; obamacare; right-wing news; breitbart; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : For many years, the United States’ inability to provide basic universal healthcare has been a mystery. Why does the richest country in the world not have the best healthcare and the best health outcomes? This study examines the disposition of US opposition to publicly funded healthcare. READ MORE

3. 2. The portrayal of Sweden in American alt-right media, as exemplified by Breitbart News

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

   Author : Viktor Andersson; [2018]
   Keywords : alt-right; Breitbart News; Sweden; argument analysis; immigration; United States; Europastudier; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The alt-right is a fairly recent addition to the pantheon of political ideologies. Its rise to prominence is seen by many as the driving force behind Donald Trump’s presidency. The youth of the ideology has also created a natural relationship between it and the fields of new media and cyberculture. READ MORE

4. 3. "Coming soon to a neighborhood near you...": The very real effects and great human costs of fake news : A critical discourse analysis of Breitbart News Network's representation of Muslim and Syrian refugees in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : John LaChine; [2017]
   Keywords : 2016 United States presidential election; Breitbart; Breitbart News Network; Critical Discourse Analysis; Destructive discourses; Islam; Muslim refugees; National security; Syrian refugees; Syrian refugee ban;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how a Breitbart News Network text represented Muslim and Syrian refugees in the weeks leading up to the 2016 United States presidential election. Using a methodological framework based on Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis, the analysis seeks to reveal the linguistic semiotic choices made by the text producer in the representation of Muslim and Syrian refugees and to explain how these semiotic choices were used to achieve their effect. READ MORE