Back when the Washington Post was trying to decide how to...

Back when the Washington Post was trying to decide how to deal with the internet���and had not yet doubled down on "access journalism", i.e. working for your sources rather than for your readers���Dan Froomkin lucked into the "White House Watch" column, doing explainer journalism on the White House press corps���telling us why the White House press corps was doing what it was doing that week. This was an extremely useful thing to do. Now he is starting it up again. Worth spending your money on: Dan Froomkin: A Case Study in Normalizing Trump, from the New York Times: "Disappointed in how normalizing NYT���s coverage of Trump interview was this morning. He was talking complete megalomaniacal gibberish, they make it sound like he was answering their questions.... I���m glad Sulzberger talked to Trump a bit about press freedom, but the NYT... can also confront him with reality...

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