‘Trump behaves badly’ has become ‘dog bites man’ – allowing the once and maybe-future president to confound the media, which operates under the assumption that there are standards of behaviour
the woman whom a judge ruled he raped, journalist E. Jean Carroll, even as he leans on a corporate supporter to front him the $88-million he owes her for libelling her previously.that one of his “first acts” as president would be to free from jail the “hostages” convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. He invokesagainst charges of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to a porn star – before he became president.
Of course, media choices are hard to separate from reader interests. We have all become inured to Mr. Trump’s crimes, through sheer repetition. But there’s a specific media component to this that’s worth unpacking., Mr. Trump’s behaviour is best understood as that of a psychopath, equal parts narcissistic and nihilistic. That he will always, without fail, do the opposite of the good or right or smart thing is not accidental.
This is critical, because news coverage of scandals is wholly a function of expectations. It’s not news, that is, if someone behaves exactly as expected. It’s only news if they depart from expectations in some way: either exceeding them, or ideally falling short., it is true, consistently lowers the bar: With each new barbarity, he subverts even the subterranean expectations he has set for himself. But since he does it so regularly, that in itself has become part of the expectations.
Along with expectations, this disarms two more elements of traditional news coverage: discovery and shame.
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