Do you live in a Trump bubble, or a Clinton bubble? | Timothy Garton Ash

The myths, exaggerations and lies of our fragmented media have distorted reality for both left and right. This is eroding our democracy

‘Trump wears deception as a foreskin.” Thus said Nathan, a small-business owner, when talking to me in Chicago the other day. I couldn’t have put it better myself.

A recent analysis concluded that Donald Trump averaged one lie or inaccuracy for every five minutes of speaking. There’s a great debate raging here about how the American media should cover this narcissistic, bragging, mendacious, ignorant, dangerous demagogue. But what’s happening to the media themselves is part of the problem.

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