Mr. Trump has explicitly acknowledged the media’s desire to act in the story, and is trying to exploit it by combining the very broad theatrical political journalism with the report’s extensive, dogmatic and mostly revelatory work. He has set up a brand-name media outlet in November. He would obviously be as happy as NBC-New York Times-CNN-Atlantic ran against the vicious Biden. When a CNN reporter last week asked about the violence by his supporters, he replied that “your supporters” shot dead a man in Portland, Ore, meaning he was responsible for the deadly shooting of Trump supporter, Aaron Daniels.
If you watch Fox News, you will see every day how the Republican Party defines itself as a party governed by complaints rather than a specific policy, and complaints against the media are its supreme form. It also appears in a one-page document used for the Republican Party platform.
Mr. Trump’s greatest gift is for polarization, and he has inspired many who love him with a new passion for journalism, especially its most dramatic forms, with hatred. Watch cable news to see the benefits of playing the role of an outraged television journalist. Before Mr. Trump, the tune of the White House was a pale hostage situation, a never-contained, often empty, ritualistic sequence of events and briefings by reporters. Now, it’s an ongoing morality drama about the truth, in which journalists become famous as they confront to call Mr. Trump a liar, and the president enjoys his support by chasing him. At his most revealing, he reveals his anti-Semitism for women’s raucous questions. But there is another compelling opportunity for Mr. Trump to keep up with the posture for the camera.
Louis Raven vlace Les, author of a provocative new case against journalism called “View from Summer Somewhere,” further argues that journalists should leave the White House briefing room altogether. “If they are serious about protecting democracy, they need to build a collective force around not living in that room anymore,” Mr Wallace said in an interview.
But in the for-profit world of media business, the promotion of both subscription sales and personal brand-building pulls journalists in the opposite direction. The operators in the subscription business – which includes a growing share of cable and and online and print outlets – have been successful in telling you what you want to hear and, in some sense, signaling it to your team.
