Bilden av nynazism och rasism i nyhetsmedier

Abstract

Whereas research within Social Sciences analyzes nazism and racism as complex social phenomena and as a result of changes in modern and post-modern societies, the news medias' accounts of nazism and racism are associated with tangible acts of violence and the agents behind them. This stems from the fact that for news-work to be effective and reliable it must rest on already established conceptions and use accredited sources. On matters of racism and nazism, the uniformed police have been assigned the preferential right of interpretation in the media. This has brought about a marginalization of the race-ideological motive, and led to nazism and racism being made comprehensible mainly as a form of criminality. The question of what kind of society it is that generates racism has never had to be posed or answered in the newsrooms. The news in every society has a self-imposed task of creating national consensus. Regarding nazism and racism, Swedish media have united the Swedish nation in a collective repudiation of racist violence. A different ideological undertone is reflected in news reports about nazism in Germany.

Keywords

• news
• nyheter
• nyhetsrapportering
• nazism
• racism
• ideology