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



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