I doubt the media and the American public will ever see eye to eye on what journalists do and why they do it. The Pew Research Center just released results of a national survey into what the public makes of the Trump-media relationship. Most Americans think it’s unhealthy. I don’t think that would have been my answer.
Current tensions have made the relationship between Trump administration and the U.S. news media generally UNHEALTHY
Let me put it another way: Would you call the relationship between a parent and a tantrum-throwing two-year-old healthy if the parent acted as the kid’s enabler? Let me suggest that because of current tensions, the relationship between the White House and the media is healthy. In the best of circumstances, reporters and politicians are antagonists. In the present case, reporters don’t believe anything Trump and his acolytes tell them, and well they shouldn’t.
Would the public feel better about the health of the Trump-media relationship if they got along as chummily as Trump and Putin?
