Frontline Recaps Trump Campaign With His Greatest Hits.

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'Pity the news organization trying to do sober, reflective, comprehensive reporting on Donald J. Trump. While it’s gathering its information and conducting its interviews and preparing its graphics, Mr. Trump is galloping out ahead, rewriting the story daily.

That was the obvious problem for PBS’s “Frontline,” which concludes a series of Trump-related reports with “Trump’s Road to the White House” on Tuesday night. An hour of “How did this happen?,” covering the 15 months from announcement speech to election, it’s intelligently and conscientiously made. It’s also almost completely beside the point.

There’s no new information in “Trump’s Road”: It’s an annotated ticktock of well-known events. (Perhaps hoping to add a semblance of immediacy, the producers drop into the narration a rhetorical, for now unanswerable question: Will he govern the way he campaigned?) The main reason to watch it is to relive those events and get them clear in your mind. For those opposed to, or appalled by, Mr. Trump, it’s a horror film. For his supporters, it’s “The Sound of Music.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/arts/television/review-frontline-recaps-trump-campaign-with-his-greatest-hits.html?

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1. frontline may be history if repubs cut funds for pbs soon nt