Why the media's Trump dossier coverage is suicidal
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Gary Waters / Alamy Stock Photo
January 12, 2017
The media is sinking to Donald Trump's level.
Reeling from their inability to stop his election, envious of his power to make people believe his most ridiculous statements, and rinsed by a needy mood for self-soothing, the media and other American institutions are greeting the era of Trump by lowering their ethical and professional standards and indulging in attention-seeking hysteria. However cathartic it may be, the effect is suicidal for the media and dangerous for the nation.
Just witness the undignified, stupid press conference that the president-elect gave yesterday. The result was that Trump's denunciation of "fake news" and the subsequent media outrage crowded out stories about the conflicts of interest that may bedevil Trump or his nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson.
Here's how it happened.
http://theweek.com/articles/672551/why-medias-trump-dossier-coverage-suicidal
