Cracking Trump’s Power Over the Press

found online by Raymond

 
From Jonathan Bernstein Bloomberg:

You’d think it would be easy for reporters to call out Donald Trump. After all, he says outrageous things, shows a basic ignorance of how the U.S. government works and peddles the same falsehoods over and over. But nothing is simple about the new Republican standard-bearer.

Think about it. Every politician lies occasionally. Most of them have made statements that at least some people find outrageous. And even well-informed elected officials sometimes reveal lack of deep knowledge about a subject. So how can reporters in their daily coverage convey how far from the norm Trump is?

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