The American press must not be complicit as President-elect Donald Trump attempts to neutralize and game the fourth estate, critics said this week.
“Rather than doing their jobs and being adversarial to Trump, rather than responding to this sort of bullying with some dignity and return aggression, it is a very good bet that they will respond with greater submission.”
—Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
From his unusual “off-the-record” summit with corporate media executives and reporters at Trump Tower on Monday, to his on-again, off-again meeting with the New York Times, to his employing scripted video briefings in place of press conferences, Trump has in the past two days further exhibited his disdain for, and willingness to sidestep, the establishment press.
Even before the election, the Huffington Post‘s Michael Calderone wrote: “With executive power at his disposal, and a reputation of retaliation, it is not a stretch to imagine Trump disrupting the press’ traditional—and vital—role of covering the White House.”
Recent developments suggest that prediction is coming to pass, as observers pointed out online:
Notably, the drama between Trump and the media “is unfolding at a keen moment of weakness for the press, which has already been buffeted by falling revenue and mounting public disaffection,” Emily Bazelon writes in a piece for this week’s New York Times Magazine.
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