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“In an earlier era, journalism’s centrality was at least partly an artifact of the constraints of a mass communication structure that limited the number of mediated voices. These limits concentrated attention on a small number of channels, which had the effect of producing a consensus-based news environment fed by lucrative revenues from advertisers needing to reach consumers. In what Daniel Hallin called the “high-modernist” moment for news, this was”
― Matt Carlson, News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture

“On the one hand, journalism remains a powerful institution in democratic life and one that supports other powerful institutions.”
― Matt Carlson, News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture

“We argue that Trump remains a symbol of a larger phenomenon characterized by identity-driven politics, political polarization, and a news industry struggling to adapt to a changing media culture.”
― Matt Carlson, News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture

“Any one incident cannot capture enough of the overall picture; it would take a book to do it all justice.”
― Matt Carlson, News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture

“Trump may have lost the 2020 election, but he still received nearly seventy-five million votes.”
― Matt Carlson, News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture

“What Trump harnessed was a right-wing populist vein in American politics, one particularly skeptical of journalists and other elites, that predated him and will persist after him.”
― Matt Carlson, News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture

“In an earlier era, journalism’s centrality was at least partly an artifact of the constraints of a mass communication structure that limited the number of mediated voices. These limits concentrated attention on a small number of channels, which had the effect of producing a consensus-based news environment fed by lucrative revenues from advertisers needing to reach consumers. In what Daniel Hallin called the “high-modernist” moment for news, this was an era when the historically troubled role of the journalist seemed fully rationalized, when it seemed possible for the journalist to be powerful and prosperous and at the same time independent, disinterested, public-spirited, and trusted and beloved by everyone, from the corridors of power around the world to the ordinary citizen and consumer.13”
― Matt Carlson, News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture