A third panel, “Populism and the Media,” will analyze the relationship between populist politics and the media. As we know, populist leaders and activists criticize the “established” media as unfair and tend to reject expertise and claims to objectivity from journalists, along with scientists, administrators, and other “insiders.” The epithet “fake news” is used to undermine any and all truth claims made in the media. Yet populists make very clever use of the media, old and new. This panel is designed to address how populists make use of old and new media and how the contemporary mediatization of politics fosters populist strategies.
Source: Populism and Religion: The American Case (Day 2) | Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life