More Thoughts On How Politics Is Covered By Today’s Media

“All that breathless cable coverage of Trump’s Twitter wars and the live shots of his plane landing on the tarmac didn’t help either. And Facebook and the other social media sites should rightfully be doing a lot of soul-searching about their role as the most efficient distribution network for conspiracy theories, hatred, and outright falsehoods ever invented.”

Two sentences from a new Brookings Institution essay on covering politics in the “post-truth” era.  Read it here.

Posted by Tim Morrissey