The Ultimate News Value: Journalism Textbooks, the U.S. Presidency, and the Normalization of Donald Trump

Parks, Perry

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2019.1686413

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“…Our reasoning also throws into question the usefulness of confrontation with media companies for populist leaders. The divergences between Donald Trump and CNN helped the then President gain visibility, gather support from voters, and claim to be a victim of adversarial coverage (Montgomery, 2017; Parks, 2020). Bolsonaro takes a more radical stance by suggesting that “the correct thing to do is to shut down media companies such as Globo , Folha de S. Paulo , and O Estado de S. Paulo ,” encouraging his followers to share the hashtag “#GloboLixo” (GloboIsGarbage) on Twitter.…”

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Defending democracy or amplifying populism? Journalistic coverage, Twitter, and users’ engagement in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

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Marques

2022

Journalism

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The article examines how mainstream news organizations in Brazil have tweeted about Jair Bolsonaro, investigating to what extent they may (voluntarily or not) amplify the visibility of populist leaders. We also scrutinize the levels of audience engagement with posts mentioning the President. Our empirical design comprises a content analysis of 128,096 tweets published throughout 2019 by Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo, and O Globo. The results reveal that such newspapers focused on controversies and negative issues involving Bolsonaro, while posts addressing public policies did not achieve high visibility or engagement. The article also discusses to what degree the newspapers may be taking advantage of users' preferences for content with populist features to reinforce their watchdog role and boost audience ratings. Our findings also contribute to understanding how populist leaders and media organizations can build a mutually beneficial relationship, even though they publicly claim to oppose each other. Finally, the paper suggests new hypotheses to be explored, such as the argument that quality papers may be loosening the division between news and opinion when using social media to satisfy audience niches in polarized environments.

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Defending democracy or amplifying populism? Journalistic coverage, Twitter, and users’ engagement in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

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2022

Journalism

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“…As the 'truth sandwich' was only recently conceptualised, there was no previous research that could be found on it's existence or lack of existence in media coverage. However, research has argued that the U.S. presidency possesses so much significant news value that journalists could naturalize presidential behaviour despite professional judgment (Parks, 2020). This may explain why initial untruths in the potential 'truth sandwich' coverage were so readily accepted.…”

Section: Journalism In the Trump Eramentioning

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A Missed Opportunity? President Trump, the Truth Sandwich, and News Coverage Across an Ideological Spectrum

Kenix,

Manickam

2021

Media Watch

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“…W. Anderson, 2013; Grabe & Myrick, 2016). Journalists’ attachment to traditional normativity and their blinders to anti-normative manipulations helped lead to disastrous electoral results in 2016 (Boczkowski & Papacharissi, 2018; Gutsche, 2018; Parks, 2020) and have promoted continued attempts to preserve normal press-government relations during the Donald Trump administration. Journalism research often reifies and discursively reproduces these normative patterns through 20th-century theorizing and statistical or descriptive analyses of what journalism is , rather than pursuing more generative questions of what journalism could be (Zelizer, 2017).…”

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Researching With Our Hair on Fire: Three Frameworks for Rethinking News in a Postnormative World

Parks

2020

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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This article urges a jolt in journalism theory commensurate with the urgent state of planetary affairs—including catastrophic climate change and spreading authoritarianism—that journalism’s weaknesses have helped to precipitate and that its strengths might help to contain. The article explores three conceptual frameworks offering alternative approaches to conceiving news that might disrupt the stasis of our polarized societies: “existential journalism,” or a call to radical independence; Buddhist news values, based on ontological and ethical commitments favoring interdependence and compassion; and nonrepresentational news, inspired by an epistemologically expansive style of social research privileging affect, immanence, and wide-eyed attention. Attending to journalisms of engagement, compassion, and everyday joys might disrupt the heuristic partisanship and protective avoidance that characterize citizens’ contemporary relations with news, opening possibilities for more generative politics.

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The Ultimate News Value: Journalism Textbooks, the U.S. Presidency, and the Normalization of Donald Trump

Cited by 16 publications

References 25 publications

Defending democracy or amplifying populism? Journalistic coverage, Twitter, and users’ engagement in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

Defending democracy or amplifying populism? Journalistic coverage, Twitter, and users’ engagement in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

A Missed Opportunity? President Trump, the Truth Sandwich, and News Coverage Across an Ideological Spectrum

Researching With Our Hair on Fire: Three Frameworks for Rethinking News in a Postnormative World

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