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The research examines the occurrence and reproduction of populist and affective communication in the interpretive genre of newspaper commentary of two selected daily newspapers in Slovenia, Delo and Slovenske novice, in the period of changes in migration and refugee legislation in Slovenia (period between 2015 and 2019). Using the method of framing, the researchers analyse the newspaper commentaries in the two newspapers in order to examine the frames, used by the journalists when defining social phenomena as problems within which they implicitly or explicitly include or offer solutions in their texts. The final sample of the analysis is limited to those newspaper commentaries that contain in their argumentation a structured and semantically relevant pair: an explicit definition of the problem and an explicitly proposed solution to the defined problem. Structured frameworks containing a pair of problem (diagnosis) - solution (prognosis) identified by the research team in the texts thus represent fundamental units of analysis. The analysis of framing within the communicative framing process presupposes and enables the perception of a certain non-linguistic or non-cognitive property of framed problems and solutions in the analyzed texts. So is the research team in texts to all frameworks, i.e. all couples, also identified affects that are randomly or intentionally intertwined and intertwined with meanings and positions in the texts, and both frames and affects were linked in the texts to three populist antagonisms that they frame migration themes: anti-elitism, people-centeredness, otherness. Due to the specific way in which populist antagonisms are spread in the media, media populism in each pair (problem-solution) is coded on two levels, for the first time as populism through the media and secondly, like populism on the part of the media. Populism through the media is marked by the presence of three populist antagonisms uttered by outside voices (e.g....