As Eugene Robinson put it in The Washington Post, “Trump lies the way other people breathe.” For Jacob Weisberg of Slate, this campaign is not the usual apples versus oranges. If Trump is outside the frame of conventional political discourse, how far outside the frame of conventional coverage does the media have to move? Since January, The Huffington Post has appended an editors’ note to every story about Trump that begins: “Note to our readers: Donald Trump is a serial liar.”But there was also hesitation. My newspaper, The New York Times, spoke of Trump’s misrepresentations, but it was not until a few weeks ago that we called Trump a liar. The question is whether such stories impact Trump supporters or amount to “preaching to the choir” in tribal America.

Source: New York Times October 07, 2016 10:18 UTC