The Trump Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy

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. )