Trump Tests The Truth & The Media

The Takeaway | Mar 15, 2016

Though it appears he'll have a successful election day, Donald Trump finds himself in the middle of a week marred by controversy.

On Friday, Trump cancelled a rally in Chicago after violent clashes erupted between protesters and his supporters. Breibart journalist Michelle Fields claims she was grabbed so forcibly by Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski that she was bruised. Along with others, Fields resigned on Monday from the conservative news site, claiming a lack of support in the wake of the incident.

The relationship between Donald Trump and the press has been fraught from the beginning of his campaign. Journalists have struggled to provide non-biased coverage of a candidate who has made it his mission to be the very opposite of neutral.

How should political journalist be reporting the heated rhetoric of the Trump campaign? Here to answer is Samuel Freedman, a professor of journalism and journalistic ethics at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was a staff reporter for The New York Times from 1981 to 1987. 

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