Georgios Samaras

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

"Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences. Every headline, every clip, every click adds weight. This is how the line gets crossed."

"And how some media are no longer just covering the far right but helping it speak."

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

Excellent critique of the media’s normalization of the far right.

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

OPINION: Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial choice with political consequences.

Here’s how some media outlets are no longer just covering these forces — but amplifying them.

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

Media must stop normalizing the far right
Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences

www.politico.eu/article/medi...

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

Must read from @gsamaras.bsky.social

"Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences. Every headline, every clip, every click adds weight. This is how the line gets crossed"

www.politico.eu/article/medi...

The article reflects on my recent publication in European Political Science, where I examined how English-language media use the label “hard right”. For those interested, you can read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

I published a new op-ed in @politico.com on how the media is mainstreaming the far right. It blurs ideology, sanitises extremist actors and quietly shifts the centre of gravity of public debate onto far-right terrain. It’s free sanitisation. www.politico.eu/article/medi...

Headline: Polanski and Farage don't agree. But they have more in common than you might think

Political journalism in this country is so unserious...

Imagine how cut off from society you have to be to come up with something so arrogantly ignorant and careless...

(Via @gsamaras.bsky.social)

So the Telegraph is taking this well

On the "hard right" as a euphemism, check out @gsamaras.bsky.social's excellent article

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The hard right has high hopes in Gorton and Denton – but a grassroots fightback is under way As ordinary people feel the effects of divisive rhetoric, a local group is taking action to empower the community

It's a real shame that this otherwise refreshing article based on the actual views of the local people in their diversity euphemises the far right as "hard right" through misguided editorial choices while showing clearly the threat should not be taken lightly...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Trump official allies with Europe’s far right in attacks on migration and hate speech policies US state department’s Sarah B Rogers has become face of White House’s hostility to European liberal democracies

"[Advocacy for free speech on the far right] was never a neutral commitment to open debate. It is a claim to special permission"

@gsamaras.bsky.social spoke to the Guardian about deepening connections between the Trump administration & far right European parties

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Claims of neutrality are an admission of bias in and of themselves

No research is undertaken in a neutral space as funding, hierarchies, job perpectives, privileges, power and hegemony all come into play when deciding what will be research and how

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

Excellent article but stark reminder that for all the perceptions of universities as ivory towers for elites, they are actually vital hubs in towns n cities supporting local businesses and providing key services as well as education….

“…linguistic ambiguity... helps far-right parties rebrand themselves as moderate"

@gsamaras.bsky.social's new paper in @epsjournal.bsky.social warns of the dangers of imprecise journalistic language that blurs the line between mainstream conservatism and extremism

➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/media-m...

Another morning, another article mentioning the "hard right"...

This may seem trivial but the use of terms that euphemise far-right politics and deflect from the threat they pose matters a lot

See @gsamaras.bsky.social 's brilliant article on the "hard right"

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

❇️ FirstView – 🔍 Research

@gsamaras.bsky.social presents the first systematic study of how 7 major English-language outlets used the term “Hard-Right”.

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@theguardian.com The BBC @politico.com @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @economist.com @reuters.com @financialtimes.com

Abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who stays in it from this day forward as members of a criminal conspiracy to commit murder.

Trump is testing Europe – and the clock is ticking European leaders are sending markedly inconsistent signals in the face of clear provocation from the US.

"Downplaying the threats coming out of the White House as bluster does not reduce the risk – it in fact lowers the political cost of escalation on the US’s part"

💬 @gsamaras.bsky.social writes in the @theconversation.com about Europe's response to Trump pushing limits of the international order.

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#OpenAccess from @epsjournal.bsky.social -

Misuse, mislabelling, and the broken path of the ‘hard-right’: Challenging nonscientific political discourse - https://cup.org/45kNxP2

- @gsamaras.bsky.social

Jenrick didn't need to join Reform to mainstream reactionary politics, just like Badenoch and Starmer haven't needed to either

We can't keep exceptionalising the far right and instead make accountable all of those who mainstream its politics, regardless of their affiliation in politics or the media

The u-turn on mandatory digital ID was incredibly predictable.

I v much doubt scrapping jury trials will survive either.

Less positively prob not votes at 16 either.

If the far right oppose something, Starmer wont do it. Farage is already the Prime Minister rly #r4today

What journalistic failure looks like

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"What Mitsotakis sells as a “success story” is a classic regime of accumulation: EU money, cheap labor, and privatized public goods generate healthy returns for banks, construction conglomerates, and hotel chains, while the social wage is stripped back even further."

Spot on @gsamaras.bsky.social

Excellent piece by @gsamaras.bsky.social @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the dramatic decline of democracy, the economy and the rule of law in Greece. Greek citizens are paying the price for corruption, crime and authoritarianism. Yet @eppgroup.bsky.social shields Mitsotakis as they did Orbàn

Greece’s Broken Democracy Is a Warning for Europe European authorities promote Greece as a postcrisis success story. Yet Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s right-wing government relies on spyware and the opaque use of EU subsidies — and is now overseeing a brutal cost-of-living crisis.

European authorities promote Greece as a postcrisis success story.

Yet Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s right-wing government relies on spyware and the opaque use of EU subsidies — and is now overseeing a brutal cost-of-living crisis.