Abstract
The right-wing alternative media have become a growing phenomenon in the last years. The influx of these media contributes to the blurring lines between legitimate and deviant media actors. Taking a comparative approach this study analyses how these media frame the Samuel Paty murder in order to ascertain how deviant these media truly are. The study relied on a qualitative framing analysis of 209 news and opinion articles from Aftenposten, VG, Document and HRS. Based on existing empirical data on these right-wing alternative media sources four hypotheses; related to the overall similarities and expected topics within the frames of these right-wing outlets were used to determine deviance. The study finds that there were significant similarities in the frames present in the mainstream and right-wing media coverage of the Paty murder, indicating that these media share a common logic in what elements of the case should be emphasized. The results also indicated that the major differences between these media lie in the content as the right-wing alternative outlets frequently feature more polarizing elements in their framing of the event. Which underscores the need for further analysis into the content produced by these media to understand how they separate themselves from the mainstream.