The Media Helped Elect Trump in 2016. Are they Doing it Again?
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The Media Helped Elect Trump in 2016. Are they Doing it Again?

2020-04-16
The president’s nightly Coronavirus Task Force briefings are increasingly coming to resemble campaign rallies without the crowds: excuses for Trump to showboat in front of TV cameras, praise his own managerial brilliance, and gratuitously insult reporters. So why are they still being taken seriously by cable news? Veteran broadcast journalist Soledad O’Brien joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss whether the media are repeating the mistakes of 2016.
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