This volume examines the effects of Donald Trumps presidency on journalistic practices, rhetoric, and discourses. Rooted in critical theory and cultural studies, it asks what life may be like without Trump, not only for journalism but also for American society more broadly.
The book places perspectives and tensions around the Trump presidency in one spot, focusing on the underlying ideological forces in tensions around media trust, Trumpism, and the role of journalism in it all. It explores how journalists dealt with racist rhetoric from the White House, relationships between the Office of the President and social media companies, citizens, and journalists themselves, while questioning whether journalism has learned the right lessons for the future. More importantly, chapters on liberal media "bias," the First 100 Days of the Biden Presidency, gender, and race, and how journalists should adopt measures to "reduce harm" hint as to where politics and journalism may go next.
Reshaping the scholarly and public discourse about where we are headed in terms of the presidency and publics, social media, and journalism, this book will be an important resource for scholars and graduate students of journalism, media studies, communication studies, political science, race and ethnic studies and sociology.
This volume examines the effects of Donald Trumps presidency on journalistic practices, rhetoric, and discourses. Rooted in critical theory and cultural studies, it asks what life may be like without Trump, not only for journalism but also for American society more broadly.
Preface; Introduction: How Trump Tested the Press, They Failed, and We
Wonder, Now What?; Part I Trumpism and Its Attack(s) on Journalism: Fear,
Phobias, and Fighting Bullshit;
1. The Politics of Fear After Trump;
2.
Conservative News Audiences: A Lack of Media Trust and How They Think
Journalism Can Improve;
3. Media Distrust and Republican Identity in Trumps
Wake;
4. American and Cuban: Cuban-origin Voters Interpretations of Trump
and the Socialist Media Frame in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election;
5.
Counter-net of Tomorrow? Right-wing Responses to Deplatforming Trump; Part II
Journalisms (Failed) Responses to Trump: From Dis-information to Social
Distance;
6. Shifting the Frame: Trumps Big Lies, Misogyny, and Cultural
War Escalation;
7. Donald Trump and the Rhetoric of Dis-information:
COVID-19, China, and Coverage of his Comments;
8. The Trump Effect on Rural
Communities and their Newspapers: In Retrospect and On Recovery; Part III
Journalism & Politics in Opposition to Trumpism: From Bashing to Biden;
9.
UnFoxing Market Failure: Complicating Media Matters for Americas
#UnFoxMyCableBox Campaign for Digital Activism;
10. Trumps News Practices
and Discursive Patterns in his New Moment as Former President;
11. From
Chaos and Cage Fighting to Quiet and Calm: How Trump and Biden Changed
Journalisms Relationship with the Presidency;
12. Returning to Neoliberal
Normalcy: Analysis of Legacy News Medias Coverage of the Biden Presidencys
First Hundred Days; Part IV Journalisms Ideological & Practical Crisis: From
Norms to New, New, New Journalism?;
13. Media and White Supremacy After 45:
Is Anti-racist Journalism Possible?;
14. Not Two Sides of the Same Coin:
Avoiding False Equivalencies Teaching Political Journalism After Trump;
15.
Its Time Journalists Take Minimize Harm Seriously: Lessons from the Trump
Era;
16. Trump, COVID-19, and Authoritarian Populism: The Future of U.S.
Technopolitics
Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. is Senior Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, U.K. His research focuses on issues of power, geography, political communication, and innovation in digital journalism. He is author, co-author, and editor of several books, including Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control and The Trump Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy. As Associate Editor and Engagement Editor of Journalism Practice, he produces and hosts The J Word: A Podcast by Journalism Practice.
