This book examines the disruptive nature of Trump news - both the news his administration makes and the coverage of it - related to dominant paradigms and ideologies of U.S. journalism.
Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice at Lancaster University, UK. A journalist since 1996, his scholarship surrounds the cultural and social meanings of news and has appeared in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism, and Journalism Studies.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Translating Trump: How to Discuss the Complications of Covering New Presidential Politics
(Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. )
Part I: Challenges to Journalistic Norms, Practices & Social Cohesion
1. Donald Trump and the War on Media: From Election '16 into the Trump Presidency
(Douglas Kellner)
2. News Boundaries of 'Fakiness' and the Challenged Imaginative Power of Journalistic Authority
(Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. )
3. Civil War in Donald Trump's America: Conversations About Media and Mayhem on Main Street, USA
(Robert E. Pierre)
4. Haktology, Trump, and News Practices
(Leon Barkho)
Part II: Journalism During Difficult Discourse
5. Who, From Where?: TV Network News Coverage of Immigration Narratives During Trump's First 100 Days
(Jennifer Hoewe, Geri Alumit Zeldes, and Brian J. Bowe)
6. By Any Other Name: White-Supremacist Terrorism in the Trump Era
(Katherine M. Bell)
7. The Hell That Black People Live: Trump's Reports to Journalists on Urban Conditions
(Carolyn Guniss)
8. Media Narratives of Gender in the Contentious Conservative Age of Trump
(Pam Creedon)
Part III: Trump, Rhetoric & Understanding Amid Media Fragmentation
9. The Origins of Trump's "Alternative Reality": A Brief History of the Breitbart Effect
(Frank Durham)
10. Advertisements in the Age of Hyper-partisan Media: A Case Study of Breitbart's #Dumpkelloggs Campaign
(Prashanth Bhat)
11. Scapegoater-in-Chief: Racist Undertones of Donald Trump's Rhetorical Repertoire
(Stephen J. Heidt)
Part IV: Journalistic Recovery Post-Trump: Lessons Learned
12. "Stop Overlooking Us!": Missed Intersections of Trump, Media, and Rural America
(Al Cross)
13. Reeducation or Rejuvenation?: Trump's Influence on News Interest and Literacy
(Fred Blevens)
14. Trump, Democracy, and the Extension of Journalism Ethics
(Kathleen Bartzen Culver)
15. The Effects of Mediatized Hate: Coping with Life in Trumpland
(LaTasha DeLoach)
Epilogue: Facing Tomorrow in an Age of Trump
(Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. )