Watching the rise and rise of Donald Trump with both fascination and horror, Communication Mixdown this week examines the role of America's mainstream media. First up, Denis Muller from the Centre for Advancing Journalism at Melbourne University talks about the significance of the 'industry of outrage'  perpetuated by the American media throughout the presidential campaign. Then, journalism researcher Brian McNair at Queensland University of Technology argues that the electoral success of Trump has disturbing echoes of the 'descent into nomalization' of fascism in 1930s Germany, and contemporary journalism has been complicit in this process.

Language and communication - in the classroom and on the street

This show casts a critical eye on the myriad ways in which we communicate with each other in our increasingly interconnected, multi-media platform world. Each week we mix down the who, the what, the where, and the how of particular communication events, messages, trends and technologies, and then consider: what impacts and what consequences?