The challenges of covering Trump

Several articles in recent days indicate that journalists continue to wrestle with how to cover Donald Trump. 

Two of them, one by Jay Caspian Kang in the New Yorker and the other by Rachel Leingang in The Guardian, argue that the public needs to see and hear more, not less, of Trump’s unhinged speeches. While broadcasters sometimes have chosen not to air Trump’s remarks in full, “now there’s the possibility that stories about his speeches often make his ideas appear more cogent than they are,” Leingang writes.

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