Listening to another interview with the celebrity journalist Michael Wolff, I've come to the conclusion that he is actually more qualified to report on Donald Trump's regime than regular political reporters because Donald Trump is a show-biz personality, he's not a person who lives within the confines of serious pubic life - or what passes for that, these days. The regular reporters of Washington DC and NYC whose beat is regular politicians and bureaucrats and lawyers and judges are out of their depth, valuing their observation of decorum and the regular order of politics and the law. A show biz lawyer who is used to covering the world of Donald Trump is more qualified to get to something more like realistic view of the unreality that Trump is than those who are used to treating political fraud with a decorous veneer of respect for the fraudsters.
Maybe along with the 2000s phenomenon of Comedy Channel shows doing a better job of getting the deplorable Bush II regime and Samantha Bee, Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert doing Trump better than the network news shows, Michael Wolff has a more realistic picture of Trump world than you're going to get from those used to treating the office with a deference Trump makes dangerously in appropriate, now. Maybe that's why the media was so stupid about the "tea party" fraud, as well. Maybe they should just admit that when TV and social media constructs most peoples' thinking you can't achieve a few of reality by the old rules of polite journalism that they, themselves, have typically honored more by breaching it than in really observing it. Their industry created Trump, that's a fact. They did it by repeating lies and telling some of those, themselves.
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