Trump has often said, not without justification, that the news networks were addicted to him as much as he was to them: “Without me, their ratings are going down the tubes.”But the Trump presidency proved something else as well. To beat President TV, I assumed, you had to counterprogram him, not just offer to turn the set off. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 9, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)But the noise of the Trump era will outlast the president, in some form, because it preceded him. Maybe Trump will become, as some have speculated, a right-wing-TV host, or maybe a right-wing-TV host will become the next Trump.

Source: bd News24 November 21, 2020 19:30 UTC