Arthur S. Hayes is an associate professor at Fordham University in New York. He holds a J.D. from Quinnipiac University School of Law, and before joining academia, he worked as a journalist for several news outlets, including the American Lawyer, the National Law Journal, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Press Critics Are the Fifth Estate: Media Watchdogs in America and Sympathy for the Cyberbully: How the Crusade to Censor Hostile and Offensive Online Speech Abuses Freedom of Expression.

List of Figures - List of Tables - Arthur S. Hayes: Introduction - Part I. Blurred Lines: When Reality TV Becomes Political Reality - June Deery: American Idol: Trump's Administration and Reality TV - Sara S. Hansen/She-Yueh Lee: Young Viewers Turned Voters-How "Wishing to Be Trump" and Other Parasocial Effects From Watching The Apprentice Predict Likeability, Trust, and Support for a Celebrity President - Part II: Campaign and Presidential Rhetoric - Mira Sotirovic/Christopher Benson: Donald Trump "Tells You What He Thinks" - Jason Turcotte: "Enemies of the people": Elites, Attacks, and News Trust in the Era of Trump - Part III: Assessing News Media Performance - Victor Pickard: American Media and the Rise of Trump - Mitchell T. Bard: From Fox News to Fake News: An Anatomy of the Top 20 Fake News Stories on Facebook Before the 2016 Election - Laurel Leff: We've Got Mail (But Probably Shouldn't): The Press, WikiLeaks, and Democratic Disclosures in the 2016 Election - Dianne Bystrom/Kimberly Nelson: The Media Was the Message: Gendered Coverage of Hillary Clinton's Historic 2016 Campaign for U.S. President - Melissa A. Johnson/Héctor Rendón: Goodbye Neighbor: Mexican News Coverage of the Trump Wall and U.S. Immigration Proposals - Nataliya Roman/John H. Parmelee: A "Political Novice" vs. the "Queen of War": How State-Sponsored Media Framed the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign - Beth Knobel: "Judicious Skepticism": Fact-Checking Trump - Arthur S. Hayes: Trump, the Press Critic: Unethical and Ineffective - Part IV: Why Twitter and Facebook May Never Be The Same - Flora Khoo/William Brown: Tweeting the Election: Comparative Uses of Twitter by Trump and Clinton in the 2016 Election - Jeffrey Delbert: The Commander in Tweets: President Trump's Use of Twitter to Defend - Tao Fu/ William A. Babcock: Are Algorithms Media Ethics Watchdogs? An Examination of Social Media Data for News - Arthur S. Hayes: Emerging Free Speech and Social Media Law and Policy in the Age of Trump - Contributors - Index.