Swedish Media, Fundamental Values and the Opinion Corridor in the 2018 Election

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Swedish Media, Fundamental Values and the Opinion Corridor in the 2018 Election

Swedish Media, Fundamental Values and the Opinion Corridor in the 2018 Election

Authors : Greg SİMONS

Pages : 12-34

Doi:10.32739/etkilesim.2021.4.8.136

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Publication Date : 2021-10-14

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Sweden is usually ranking very highly in terms of global democracy and transparency indexes. The 2018 elections in Sweden were very divisive and bitterly fought, where there was an open conflict between the mainstream political establishment parties and the anti-political establishment Swedish Democrats. Mainstream Swedish media were not neutral bystanders in the election coverage, in the months before and after the September 2018 elections. The election coverage framing featured an idealised national myth that uses the notion of various acceptable fundamental values to define it, and an idealised Swedish society. Those actors whose values and norms that do not fit these ideals were subjected to attack and derision within a concept of consensus enforcement known as the opinion corridor, which is akin to the spiral of silence.
Keywords : framing theory, national myth, mass media, fundamental values, opinion corridor

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