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“A Sprint That Never Stops.”
U.S. media outlets give a masterclass in how not to win.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that there are a great many members of the U.S. mainstream media who did not want Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States in 2016.
To that end, media coverage of the 2016 Trump campaign left a good bit to be desired.
Just how exactly did the Trump campaign pull off the greatest upset in U.S. election history with a shoestring budget and a laptop? We still don’t really know.
Russia seemed like a good explanation; until Robert Mueller, 14 Democratic lawyers, three years and thirty million dollars said otherwise. Taking comfort in the fact that Hillary Clinton did indeed win the popular vote in 2016 seemed like a good idea, too.
Of course, none of this has removed Donald Trump from 1600 Pennsylvania. Nor has it provided any kind of reliable playbook for how to remove him via election in 2020.
Every missile the press has fired at Donald Trump has failed to sink his battleship. On the contrary, the harder the press has hit Trump, the easier it has been for undecided and independent voters to tune out the unrelenting critisizm of the press.
The reason is simple; a constant barrage of noise, no matter how loud, becomes part of the…