The Republican horse race is over, and journalism lost. JK Trotter on the best of New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s incorrect predictions that Trump would lose the GOP nomination. Donald Trump, CNN, and the missing airplane: Jonathan Bernstein on how cable news made a story out of him, instead of the election. Dave Karpf on how Trump’s media dominance isn’t just driven by our attention, it’s driven by the media industry’s new tools for measuring and responding to that attention. Trump’s repeated lies about his record on Iraq go unchallenged on TV news. Few stand in Trump’s way as he piles up the Four-Pinocchio whoppers. David Folkenflik on how the media failed in covering Donald Trump. Adventures in the Trump Twittersphere: Zeynep Tufekci on how Donald Trump’s rise shows just how powerless media gatekeepers are. How do you solve a media problem like Trump? Corinne Grinapol wonders. Paul Krugman on “Paul Ryan” and the Trump fail.
Obama scolds media about “reality show” Trump coverage. Clinton calls on media to step up scrutiny of Trump. How will the news media handle the battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump? The news media should do all it can to resist false equivalence and centrification, and report what’s really going on. Why the media will lift Trump up and tear Clinton down. Pundits’ new lament: Clinton might win, but she won’t win the right way.
