“Intolerant Television”—The Coverage on Antisemitic Events in Italian Television News in 2019–2022
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Communicative misunderstandings, cultural misinterpretations, and tribal hatreds are not phenomena that emerge and develop only in the digital world. Within platforms, conflicts explode and circulate mainly in crisis situations, but the relationship (constructive or destructive) with the similar and the different, as well as the narration of the symbolic meanings of specific cultural events, originate first and foremost in interpersonal relationships, institutional political contexts, and the representations (and consumption) of traditional media, such as the television space. Italian television is still one of the reference means of communication for the majority of the population, a figure that has been recorded especially during the recent pandemic emergency despite the significant collapse in advertising investments. Hatred, especially anti-Semitic hatred, is increasingly present in the information ecology, linked to nationalist narratives or aimed at restoring traditional values and fuelling an already highly polarised political debate in a now “dense” public sphere. In particular, during the health crisis, television journalists found it very difficult to report in depth on cases of discrimination or COVID-19.
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Antisemitism: Discourse Antisemitism Television Politics Nationalism Coronavirus/Covid Main Topic: Antisemitism
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Geographic Coverage
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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14(2)
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64
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“Intolerant Television”—The Coverage on Antisemitic Events in Italian Television News in 2019–2022. 2025: 64. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.3390/socsci14020064
