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Trumping the media : politics and democracy in the post-truth era / Michael Mario Albrecht.

"Examines the rise of Donald Trump through the lens of new media landscapes and cultural shifts that have emerged since the 1980s, when Trump came to prominence"--

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Albrecht, Michael Mario (Author)
Other title:	Politics and democracy in the post-truth era.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Subjects:	Trump, Donald, > 1946- > In mass media. Mass media > Political aspects > United States. Press and politics > United States. Deception > Political aspects > United States. Trump, Donald, > 1946- Mass media > Political aspects. Political campaigns. Press and politics. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Politics and electronic media
Conservative talk radio and shock jocks
Reality TV, professional wrestling, and entertainment as reality
The president is tweeting
4chan, Reddit, far-right politics, and insurrection
The press as "enemy of the people": a crisis of epistemic authority
Post-truth, fake news, and postmodernism.