How to explain the indispensable role of the news media in lubricating the unfathomable rise of Donald Trump? …
Never has a political aspirant so successfully mastered the media. Both fascinated and appalled, the country’s top news organizations have lavished Trump with attention as, by far, the most colorful, interesting and, above all, newsworthy, figure in the electoral landscape. The 2016 campaign, so far, belongs to him. CONT.
Edward Wasserman, Berkeley