More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
This is seriously off base. Generally the opposite is true. Running for president is, by and large, an ego-destroying, humbling process. And the media is a very big part of that. Imagine you are the author of
Instead, many members of the national media feel they have a responsibility to reinforce particular candidates and their “narratives” and dismiss others. They don’t just report on the news; they form it.
Often, what the questioner really seemed to be asking was, “You haven’t spent years acclimating yourself to Washington, schmoozing donors, doing robotic press conferences, and generally insinuating yourself with the political leadership class, demonstrating that you will get very little done. How can we also trust you to get very little done and maintain the status quo?” The primacy of the media’s narrative
But the MSNBC flap offered another campaign trail lesson: don’t expect TV news organizations to act accountable, fair, and objective. Many don’t even see themselves that way. They’re not there to report the news; they’re there to make the news. They have set audiences to whom they are appealing and are comfortable making judgments as to what and how to present “the news” to that audience. They may not be eager to
