This analysis explores how a liberal mainstream news outletMSNBCgrapples with the overt racism of the current right-wing populist presidential administration in the United States. With a plethora of good conservatives and its stable of liberal pundits, the cable network has painted the president as mentally ill or declining, an incompetent purveyor of chaos. In perpetuating a mantra of this is not who we are in coverage of overt racism, MSNBC pivots to a more comfortable mainstream space of post-race, an ideological stance that places racism as a fringe anomaly. The post-race pivot belies the country's ongoing racist legacy, and potentially lulls viewers toward acceptance of official antiracisms that serve hegemonic interests. Thus, the news coverage of the current presidency plays a role in forestalling a meaningful reckoning with the country's ongoing history of institutional and everyday racism.
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Bell, K. M. (2019). “this is Not Who We Are:” Progressive Media and Post-Race in the New Era of Overt Racism. Communication, Culture and Critique, 12(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcz005
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