Remixing Opinions: Video Quotes and Stances in Video Press Reviews

Résumé

This paper aims to analyse video press reviews, which are digital press videos that are composed of several video quotations. Although the quotations originate from different media sources, they are linked intertextually because they contain opinions about the same political events. The quotations contain an evaluative stance about political events. The video quotations are edited into a new media story. Although the video press review is based on the selection of journalistic content and interpretation of media material, it has novel characteristics that make it a transformed and hybrid genre. In the cases analysed, there is no explicit journalistic voice to comment on the quoted material or the quoted persons. The origin of the quotations is not identified in every case. In this sense, the video press review does not fulfil the exigencies of reliability of information. The journalistic stance consists of composing a new story that relies on the viewers’ capacity to recognise the genre’s similarity to social media videos and independently draw conclusions about the meaning of the news information after reviewing quoted material.