Did Media Learn A Lesson About Trump Coverage? Some Of Them!
Let's take a look at how the press reacted to last night's Cheeto announcement.
You would hope that the media learned its lesson. Well, some of them did -- but last night, some of them simply repeated the same over the top Mango Madness coverage that marked 2016 (looking at you, CNN!). Let's start with the ones who improved.
Like this one, from NPR:
Compare and contrast. The Washington Post did a good job:
Dan is right. I checked in on Fox last night, and they were as obsequious as ever -- although Hannity did cut away from the boring speech:
Now, you knew the Times would not fail to disappoint:
Nicolle Wallace and Jon Karl stayed focused on the big picture:
And then, there's Facebook:
Other comments:
At least we have late night TV!
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