LE MÉDIA – A POPULIST CRITIQUE OF JOURNALISTS AND THE MEDIA BY JOURNALISTS: journalism as a social good of the people

LE MÉDIA – UNE CRITIQUE POPULISTE DES JOURNALISTES ET DES MÉDIAS PAR LES JOURNALISTES : le journalisme comme bien social du peuple

LE MÉDIA – UMA CRÍTICA POPULISTA DOS JORNALISTAS E DAS MÍDIAS PELOS JORNALISTAS: jornalismo como um bem social do povo

LE MÉDIA – UNA CRITICA POPULISTA DE LOS PERIODISTAS Y DE LOS MEDIOS POR LOS PERIODISTAS: el periodismo como bien social del pueblo

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to question the critique of journalists and the media by Le Média, a French press body close to a populist party (La France insoumise), which means regularly opposing “the people” and “the elites” (De Cleen & Stavrakakis, 2017; De Cleen, 2019). Through a methodology inspired by the sociolinguistics of Gee (2014) and by the concept of “social goods”, the results bring to light: a metajournalistic critique based on the opposition between “the people” and “the elites”, a desire to delegitimize legacy media and the wish to make journalism a “social good” in the service of “the people”.

Key words
Critique of journalists; Metajournalism; Populism; Media; Social goods; Elites