Sunday, July 28, 2019

Adam Serwer: ‘The Press Has Adopted Trump’s Reality-Show Standards’


From The Atlantic:

Trump ... is constantly working to undermine public trust in mainstream news outlets. But he needn’t worry too much. If nothing else, the coverage of the Mueller hearing illustrates the extent to which much of the mainstream press has internalized Trump’s own reality-show standards for what counts as a significant political development. All the world is trashy television, and the president and his opposition are merely producers. After three seasons, Russiagate just got old, and the critics got bored with it. 

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