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After 100 days, the media are still embarrassing themselves covering Trump. Just not as much.
Margaret Sullivan is a media columnist for the WaPo.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/after-100-days-the-media-are-still-embarrassing-themselves-covering-trump-just-not-as-much/2017/04/27/8de913fe-2a86-11e7-be51-b3fc6ff7faee_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_sullivan-730a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.25a6e512bfd3
...On election night, I called the news media’s performance an epic fail on grounds of cluelessness alone. And last fall, when asked by Poynter Institute to grade campaign coverage, I handed out a D for early coverage and a C as the election neared. I won’t offer a grade this time, but maybe a handwritten note: “Shows improvement.”
We’ve scrutinized and normalized in almost equal proportion. For every great scoop, there’s been an embarrassing moment of declaring the president statesmanlike for giving a speech without a history-making gaffe...
"To a large degree, the press has responded to the aggressive, combative and sometimes abusive tone of the president with more resolve than we’ve seen in years — probably since [President Richard] Nixon’s second term,” said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute. If the tone of the reporting seems alarmed, he said, that’s probably less about the reporters and more about the sources who are leaking to them — the Washington establishment, many of whom are Republicans...
President Trump’s missile strike on Syria after a horrible chemical weapons attack was roundly seen as a sign of American strength — especially on cable TV — but the fulsome pundit praise was cringeworthy.
We’ve scrutinized and normalized in almost equal proportion. For every great scoop, there’s been an embarrassing moment of declaring the president statesmanlike for giving a speech without a history-making gaffe...
"To a large degree, the press has responded to the aggressive, combative and sometimes abusive tone of the president with more resolve than we’ve seen in years — probably since [President Richard] Nixon’s second term,” said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute. If the tone of the reporting seems alarmed, he said, that’s probably less about the reporters and more about the sources who are leaking to them — the Washington establishment, many of whom are Republicans...
President Trump’s missile strike on Syria after a horrible chemical weapons attack was roundly seen as a sign of American strength — especially on cable TV — but the fulsome pundit praise was cringeworthy.
