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    Did the Media Learn Nothing From 2016?

    The wall-to-wall coverage of Trump’s arraignment shows how quickly the lessons of his election have been forgotten.
    by Adam Serwer Apr 05, 2023 4 minutes
    Source: Tom Brenner / The New York Times / Redux

    The Trump Show is back. The former president’s arrest on felony charges of falsifying business records related to a hush-money payment to the adult-film actor Stormy Daniels inspired cable-news networks to return to wall-to-wall Donald Trump coverage, once a staple of their programming.

    The first-ever arraignment of a former president on criminal charges is a massive story, no question about it. But by itself that doesn’t really explain the minute-by-minute broadcasting of his private plane arriving in New York Monday or the blanket coverage of his speech yesterday evening. That kind of saturation approach suggests the networks could return to a model that simply allowed Trump to monopolize coverage.

    Despite Trump’s public hostility, where finding programming to fill 24 hours of coverage was much easier when the president was saying something boorish every day.

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