Moral Judgment and Social Critique in Journalistic News Satire
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. News Satire and Social Critique
1.2. Moral Foundation Theory and the Sweden/US Contexts
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Overview
3.2. A Closer Look
I do get the broad worries about how sending money to Afghanistan might inadvertently help the Taliban, but I’d argue the key question here isn’t just “What happens if we send Afghanistan money and aid?” It’s: What happens if we don’t? And we know the answer to that: millions of innocent Afghans will suffer and die under a government they did not choose. The reality is, there is no one simple solution here that is without risks. But 38 million people’s lives are at stake.(LWT, 14 August 2022)
While we managed to get roughly 80,000 Afghans, many of whom had worked with the U.S., to America since the withdrawal, the number who remain in danger because of the association with the U.S. mission can be counted in the hundreds of thousands. So, criticism of what happened is completely justified.(LWT, 14 August 2022)
(graphics display photo of Louise Erixon, the Sweden Democrats). She was happy, cause the Sweden Democrats got nearly 39 percent of the vote down there. (In a history documentarian voice): “The woman in the photo has extended her mandate, in a few days’ time, she will be deceived by her allies, but of this she knows nothing.” You see, the Moderates Kith Mårtensson dumped the Sweden Democrats and replaced them with the Social Democrats.(SN, 28 October 2022)
No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! Never say that again! That may have been the single grossest thing I have ever heard come out of Joe Biden’s mouth, and that is saying a lot, cause I have heard the stuff he used to say in the 1970:s.(LWT, 24 July 2022)
Personally, I get most upset when these—glue sticks, frankly speaking—attack our cultural treasures. ... How low, how incredibly low to include the masterpiece Primavera by Botticelli in this. How much does it even cost to repair the damage after such an attack? Well, it cost some window cleaning because there is apparently protective glass in front… protective glass! (Laughing)(SN, 2 September 2022)
The point is that conversation should be led by the groups that those items originally belong to because while obviously museums should not be violating the law, they shouldn’t be violating basic moral decency either. There is so much that we need to do to reckon with the harms—both past and present—of colonialism, but this should really be the easy part.(LWT, 2 October 2022)
4. Conclusions and Discussion
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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