TRussia Daily: Is the Media Missing the Forest for the Trees?

Brooke Gladstone, host and managing editor of WNYC's On the Media and the author of The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time (Workman Publishing Company, 2017), talks about how the Trump-Russia investigation is impacting the job of the press in terms of how it is reporting stories and planning coverage. Gladstone raises the question: How can the media cover the big important story of TRussia and cover every other story equally and as well?

The daily TRussia developments eat up a lot of media attention. Therefore, environmental news, for example, takes a backseat. But at the end of the day, we need to prevent ourselves from being so easily manipulated by Trump and his efforts to distract the public, says Gladstone. And with all the criticism about outlet's citing anonymous sources and mishandling their coverage of this administration, it can be hard to trust the media in general. But "as a news consumer, you decide who you think uses the best practice," Gladstone explains.