The outrage industry : political opinion media and the new incivility PDF
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Th e Outrage Industry STUDIES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT Steven Teles Series Editor Series Board Members Paul Frymer Jennifer Hochschild Desmond King Sanford Levinson Taeku Lee Shep Melnick Paul Pierson John Skrentny Adam Sheingate Reva Siegel Th omas Sugrue Th e Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Policy Kimberly J. Morgan and Andrea Louise Campbell Rule and Ruin: Th e Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party Geoff rey Kabaservice Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics, 1868–2010 Daniel DiSalvo Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics Sarah Reckhow Th e Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling Jal Mehta Rich People’s Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent Isaac William Martin Th e Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility Jeff rey M. Berry and Sarah Sobieraj Th e Outrage Industry Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility ••• Jeff rey M. Berry and Sarah Sobieraj 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Th ailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Copyright © 2014 by Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. CIP data is on fi le at the Library of Congress ISBN 978–0–19–992897–2 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Jeff dedicates this book to Willa and Eli Sarah dedicates this book to her parents, who taught her fi rst about politics and opinions CONTENTS 1. Outrage 3 2. Mapping Outrage in Blogs, Talk Radio, and Cable News 31 3 . Th e Perfect Storm 66 4 . It’s a Business 9 5 5 . Political Anxiety and Outrage Fandom 126 6 . Mobilizing Outrage 156 7 . Continuity, Change, Synergy 1 88 8. Th e Future of Outrage 218 Appendix 241 Index 257 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Since its inception, this book has benefi ted from the support of many. We would not have thought to collaborate without the encouragement of our col- league Vickie Sullivan and the largesse provided by Leonard Bernstein and Jane Holmes Bernstein through the Bernstein Faculty Fellows program at Tufts. Th is fellowship, designed to promote interdisciplinary collaboration between junior and senior faculty, brought us together to discuss our overlap- ping interests and provided the fi nancial support and course release time we needed to launch our research. We hope they recognize how deeply we appre- ciate their generosity. Tufts’ Faculty Research Awards program, the Summer Scholars Program, the Faculty Fellows Program at Tisch College, and the Provost’s Offi ce have also supported the project, primarily by allowing us to bring on outstanding undergraduate research assistants. Some of these young scholars—Miriam Uman˜a, Kevin Lownds, Suzanne Schlossberg, and Dan Rosenblum—were deeply involved in the design and data collection portions of the research. Th eir sharp eyes and insightful questions made our work stronger and undoubtedly more pleasant. Th e work of summer scholar Amy Connors con- tributed signifi cantly to C hapter 5 , of which she is a third author. We also appreciate having had an opportunity to work briefl y with Kathryn Bond, Th omas Calahan, Yuanzhi Gao, Alex Leipziger, and Griffi n Pepper. And we are grateful that the pilot interviews conducted by Amy Connors, Sara DeForest, Matt McGrath, Brittany Robbins, and Charlotte Steinway provided us with the groundwork and inspiration to conduct many more. A village of discipline-spanning colleagues proved enormously valuable in helping us think through our ideas as the project evolved. Very early, Ron Shaiko invited us to speak at the Rockefeller Center’s Going to Extremes Conference at Dartmouth College; we are grateful to him for this invitation and to Deborah Jordan Brooks and Robert Boatright for their feedback while we were there. We also benefi ted from sharing pieces of this work at Colby College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins University, and our professional conferences. Th ank you to Frank Baumgartner,
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