ABSTRACT
Newspaper headlines from the United States on November 9, 2016, reflected more than just who won the presidential election. "STUNNER," yelled the banner headline of The Record in Stockton, California. "BELIEVE IT," the Montgomery Advertiser headline in Montgomery, Alabama, read below a subhead, "Donald J. Trump becomes 45th President of the United States." Although, Trump's victory wasn't really surprising to people who paid attention to the kinetic energy of the social pendulum that was ramping since Barack Obama first took office and that was fueled by white citizens who felt an ultimate threat to their power. Still, US journalists, by and large, ignored Middle and much of America once again, and empowered themselves with traditional approaches to newswork that elevated access and prize journalism over meaningful assessments of systematic power within institutions of government, business, and culture. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
