{"id":325,"date":"2020-11-14T17:03:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T17:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/?page_id=325"},"modified":"2020-11-15T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T19:37:08","slug":"a-new-horse-race-begins-the-scramble-for-a-post-election-narrative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/a-new-horse-race-begins-the-scramble-for-a-post-election-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"A new horse race begins: the scramble for a post-election narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"376\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Victor_Pickard_770.png?resize=376%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Victor_Pickard_770.png?w=376&amp;ssl=1 376w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Victor_Pickard_770.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Victor_Pickard_770.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Victor_Pickard_770.png?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"US204bio\"><strong>Prof Victor Pickard<\/strong><br><br>Professor of political economy and media policy at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Annenberg School for Communication, where he co-directs the Media, Inequality &amp; Change (MIC) Center. He has written or edited six books, including the recent Democracy without Journalism?<br><br><em>Twitter: @VWPickard<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/US20_divider_4_news.png?resize=400%2C308&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/US20_divider_4_news.png?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/US20_divider_4_news.png?resize=300%2C231&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"US204\"> Section 4: News and journalism<\/h5>\n<div class=\"page-list\"><ul class=\"list-group-item\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-274\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/when-journalisms-relevance-is-also-on-the-ballot\/\">When journalism\u2019s relevance is also on the ballot<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-279\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/beyond-the-horse-race-voting-process-coverage-in-2020\/\">Beyond the horse race: voting process coverage in 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-283\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/youtube-as-a-space-for-news\/\">YouTube as a space for news<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-290\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/2020-shows-the-need-for-institutional-news-media-to-make-racial-justice-a-core-value-of-journalism\/\">2020 shows the need for institutional news media to make racial justice a core value of journalism<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-293\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/newspaper-endorsements-presidential-fitness-and-democracy\/\">Newspaper endorsements, presidential fitness and democracy<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-296\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/alternative-to-what-a-faltering-alternative-as-independent-media\/\">Alternative to what? A faltering alternative-as-independent media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-299\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/collaboration-connections-and-continuity-in-media-innovation\/\">Collaboration, connections, and continuity in media innovation<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-302\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/learning-from-the-news-in-a-time-of-highly-polarized-media\/\">Learning from the news in a time of highly polarized media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-307\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/partisan-media-ecosystems-and-polarization-in-the-2020-u-s-election\/\">Partisan media ecosystems and polarization in the 2020 U.S. election<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-310\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/what-do-news-audiences-think-about-cutting-away-from-news-that-could-contain-misinformation\/\">What do news audiences think about \u2018cutting away\u2019 from news that could contain misinformation?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-314\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/the-day-the-music-died-turning-off-the-cameras-on-president-trump\/\">The day the music died: turning off the cameras on President Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-317\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/when-worlds-collide-contentious-politics-in-a-fragmented-media-regime\/\">When worlds collide: contentious politics in a fragmented media regime<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-321\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-4-news-and-journalism\/forecasting-the-future-of-election-forecasting\/\">Forecasting the future of election forecasting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:75%\">\n<p>The ballots had barely settled in Pennsylvania when various interest groups scrambled to establish their preferred narratives. Many of these projections adhered to predictable patterns of emphasis and omission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, regardless that American majorities&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/03\/27\/majority-of-americans-support-progressive-policies-such-as-paid-maternity-leave-free-college.html\">support progressive positions<\/a>\u2014from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/2020-polls-national-health-care-plan-favored-by-most-americans-cbs-news-poll-finds\/\">nationalizing healthcare<\/a>&nbsp;to raising taxes for free public education\u2014some media and political elites heralded a confirmation that the U.S. was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-biden-election-results-11-07-20\/h_77972629976411c2f2a65c3a02e2d143\">inherently a centrist nation<\/a>. With the Senate remaining in Republican hands (pending the Georgia run-offs in early January), even the stock market seemed to react positively to the prospect of gridlocked government hamstrung in its ability to implement serious regulatory reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Falling back on false equivalences that the electorate had rejected both right and left extremes, this centrist narrative aligned with the oft-repeated truism that most Americans occupy the middle of the ideological spectrum. According to this view, Americans didn\u2019t want dramatic change, but rather a return to \u201cnormalcy\u201d and to re-establishing old norms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relatedly, centrist Democrats pointed an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/house-democrats-pelosi-election\/2020\/11\/05\/1ddae5ca-1f6e-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html\">accusatory finger<\/a>&nbsp;at the party\u2019s left flank, asserting that progressive activist slogans such as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/nov\/08\/james-clyburn-defund-police-slogan-democrats-polls\">defund the police<\/a>\u201d set up vulnerable moderates to be ruthlessly red-baited as socialists and consequently lose their races. For their part, many progressives convincingly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/politics\/aoc-biden-progressives.html?smid=tw-share\">pushed back against these storylines<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, early analyses suggest that a groundswell of \u201cBiden Republicans\u201d never materialized. While the so-called never-Trumpers behind the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2020\/11\/the-lincoln-project-donald-trump-gop-2020-elections\">Lincoln Project<\/a>&nbsp;and their slick, gut-punching ads made many liberals swoon, it was actually progressive groups, especially in states like Georgia and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/160114\/philadelphian-left-holds-line\">cities like Philadelphia<\/a>, that arguably pushed Biden over the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another major narrative assumes that, at least according to expectations set by pollsters, Democrats performed poorly in down-ballot races. Despite the lack of a \u201cblue wave\u201d, it\u2019s noteworthy that the elections did see a wide range of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2020\/11\/downballot-socialist-elected-election-day-dsa\">progressive victories<\/a>, including the resolution to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour in the Trump-backing state of Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The role of media<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media\u2019s role in all of these relationships was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/media\/media-cover-trump-save-democracy\/2020\/11\/08\/e23fc35e-21c1-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html\">contradictory<\/a>, as always. In one historic moment, the major networks\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/05\/business\/media\/trump-tv.html\">cut away<\/a>\u00a0from Trump during a major address as he launched into a tirade of lies. Some observers wondered if media organizations had suddenly, at this late stage, realized how best to handle Trump. Others noted that such an abrupt about-face actually demonstrated that media outlets could have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/technology\/525004-the-tribal-journalism-of-cable-news-is-at-a-crossroads?utm_source=sendgrid&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletters\">more adversarial<\/a>\u00a0all along, but the perceived shift in power finally emboldened them to be less timid toward the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We shouldn\u2019t be surprised. An abiding reliance on official sources and deference to power is historically a common cornerstone of professional journalism. This power relationship runs deep and is bound up with media firms\u2019 core business model, driven by advertising revenue and the ultimate objective to actualize profits at any social cost. The fact that commercialism so often&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/democracy-without-journalism-9780190946760?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\">trumps democracy<\/a>&nbsp;is also why scolding individual journalists and news outlets for being irresponsible often misses the systemic root of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it\u2019s refreshing that many media organizations have finally stopped deferring to Trump, we must look seriously at the role they have played in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2016\/11\/media-advertising-news-radio-trump-tv\/\">normalizing fascistic politics<\/a>\u2014as well as the structural factors that cause these institutions to predictably fail in advancing democratic aims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The role of media scholars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understanding these power relationships is necessary but insufficient. The point should be to&nbsp;<em>change<\/em>&nbsp;the current system. Low-quality information runs rampant through many of our news and communication systems\u2014from Facebook to Fox News\u2014while actual journalism is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2020\/10\/30\/post-election-we-need-bold-plan-journalism\">rapidly disappearing<\/a>. Media and political communication scholars ideally would help assist reform efforts toward restructuring these systems and creating new institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One potentially growing undercurrent in the field of communication research appears to be a new variant of the \u201climited effects\u201d model, which assumes that, lacking clear causal relationships, media have relatively little influence over political behavior, and therefore, by implication, are unworthy of structural reform efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Communication research needs a new normative framework that\u2019s guided by social justice. Instead of accepting things as they are, I call upon my colleagues to seize this historical moment and help broaden our political imaginary as to what kind of media system is possible. We can dare hope for media institutions that serve democratic needs and not just corporate profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, it\u2019s likely that all of these forces\u2014both major political parties, media institutions, and even academics in their own way\u2014will seek to resurrect an Obama-era status quo. But if the U.S. is to tackle the daunting problems it faces\u2014climate change, deep structural inequalities, monopoly power, mass incarceration and other forms of systemic racism\u2014the status quo should not be preserved; it should be radically changed. Whether Biden and his administration are up to the task\u2014and whether progressives and other social pressures from below can help steer them in the right direction\u2014remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Victor Pickard Professor of political economy and media policy at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Annenberg School for Communication, where he co-directs the Media, Inequality &amp; Change (MIC) Center. He has written or edited six books, including the recent Democracy without Journalism? 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