Lawfare
Former President Donald J. Trump talks to reporters outside the South Portico entrance of the White House Friday, July 5, 2019. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
A review of Matt Carlson, Seth C. Lewis, and Sue Robinson, “News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture” (Oxford University Press, 2021).
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Journalists, like everyone else, enjoy talking about themselves, and the years since 2016 have been studded with regular installments of press-watchers wondering how American journalists can or should respond to the challenge posed by Donald Trump. The former president called reporters “the enemy of the people” and egged on crowds of his supporters against them. He ejectedRethinking the Press in an Era of Distrust