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"The Young Turks" and its newscast format: accessed on April 20, 2020 from youtube.com/watch?v=DCEdEQvEH9Y

"The Young Turks" and its newscast format: accessed on April 20, 2020 from youtube.com/watch?v=DCEdEQvEH9Y

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The standards and practices in journalism that best serve democratic deliberation remain a matter of intense scrutiny in the digital age. The United States has a long history of journalists exposing self-interested behaviors of political or corporate elites with investigative journalism. With online media, journalistic practices encompass fact-chec...

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... of the videos in the sample aim at replicating the mainstream outlets' format of reporting news; for example, the creator would have a studio setting (e.g. a desk, headlines, or the name of the show in the background, etc.) and the style of addressing the audience would be similar to network anchors. Channels such as "The Young Turks" (Figure 1.) relatively faithfully imitate traditional media outlets with their formats and news delivery. ...
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... most common attack against the mainstream media outlets is that they are biased (6, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 24, 29, 31), or misinforming -sometimes to the point of accusing them of lying (4,6,10,11,12,13,31,34,36) and hypocrisy (8,10,11,16,26,36). Examples of how counter-journalists call out biases of the mainstream media include exaggerations: "it blows my mind that this is the state of American media. ...

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