The Media and the Far Right in Western Europe: Playing the Nationalistic Card

Resentment toward the media establishment is on the move – from the far right towards the centre of society. With fatal effect: it turns media criticism and journalism debates into ideologically entrenched battles which in turn lead to reciprocally escalating crises of trust and, subsequently, funding in journalism. An essay on this new power dynamic and a vision of communication in the digital age.

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Beyond ‘fake news’?

Journal of Language and Politics ◽

10.1075/jlp.21027.wri ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Scott Wright

Keyword(s):

Public Service ◽

Functional Relationship ◽

Fake News ◽

Far Right ◽

Commercial Media ◽

The Media

Abstract This article longitudinally analyses how Australian politicians engage with, and attack, journalists and the media more generally on Twitter from 2011–2018. The article finds that attacks on journalists have increased significantly since 2016 when Trump came to power, but this is largely the preserve of populist and far-right politicians. These politicians rarely call the media fake, instead alleging bias or questioning the veracity or standards of reporting and production. Many politicians have a functional relationship with the media, rarely criticising the media. Attacks are largely focused on the national public service broadcaster, the ABC, with limited attacks on commercial media.

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Education and Anti-Immigration Attitudes: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms across Western Europe

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s0003055418000588 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 113 (1) ◽

pp. 254-263 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

CHARLOTTE CAVAILLE ◽

JOHN MARSHALL

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Western Europe ◽

Future Research ◽

Compulsory Schooling ◽

Far Right ◽

Secondary Schooling ◽

Low Levels ◽

Immigration Attitudes ◽

Post War

Low levels of education are a powerful predictor of anti-immigration sentiment. However, there is little consensus on the interpretation of this correlation: is it causal or is it an artifact of selection bias? We address this question by exploiting six major compulsory schooling reforms in five Western European countries—Denmark, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden—that have recently experienced politically influential anti-immigration movements. On average, we find that compelling students to remain in secondary school for at least an additional year decreases anti-immigration attitudes later in life. Instrumental variable estimates demonstrate that, among such compliers, an additional year of secondary schooling substantially reduces the probability of opposing immigration, believing that immigration erodes a country’s quality of life, and feeling close to far-right anti-immigration parties. These results suggest that rising post-war educational attainment has mitigated the rise of anti-immigration movements. We discuss the mechanisms and implications for future research examining anti-immigration sentiment.

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Bat Ye’or and Eurabia

Key Thinkers of the Radical Right ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190877583.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 170-184 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sindre Bangstad

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Middle East ◽

North Africa ◽

Western Europe ◽

Radical Right ◽

The European Union ◽

Far Right ◽

The Us ◽

Muslim Majority

This chapter discusses the life and work of Bat Ye’or (Gisèle Littman), who is widely seen as the doyenne of “Eurabia”-literature. This comes in different varieties and formulations, but in Bat Ye’or’s rendering refers to an ongoing secretive conspiracy which involves both the European Union and Muslim-majority countries in North Africa and the Middle East, aimed at establishing Muslim control over a future Europe or “Eurabia.” Though Bat Ye’or did not coin the term “Eurabia,” she can be credited with having popularized the concept through quasi-academic titles such as Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis and Europe, Globalization and the Coming Universal Caliphate. Through its dissemination on various “counter-jihadist” websites and in the work of the Norwegian counter-jihadist blogger Fjordman, her work inspired the Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. She also has long-standing relations with Serbian ultranationalists, the Israeli Far Right, and various radical Right activists in Western Europe and the US.

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