How Not to Feed the Beast

In the Age of Trump, the press face a paradox: the president-elect routinely does things that, coming from the president, should be news -- from tweeting insults at celebrities to telling bald-faced lies to holding outrageous press conferences next to stacks of blank paper. But when they cover these events, journalists can find themselves not holding the president-elect accountable but rather playing into the spectacle, while other news gets lost in the shuffle.

What is the media to do? Nathan Robinson, editor-in-chief of Current Affairs, argues that while the press can't control what the president does, and they certainly can't ignore him, there are specific ways they can do their jobs better.

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Nuages (Clouds) by James Carter