How Donald Trump used the media and the industry of outrage to win the US Presidency
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
The media as an institution in the United States is undoubtedly in a deplorable condition, but not for the reasons asserted by Donald Trump.
If anything, Trump has been the beneficiary of the media’s failings.
High on the list of these failings is what The Economist three weeks ago called “the business of outrage”.
Individual media...