U.S. media’s failure to defeat Trump shows how journalism has lost its way
In the ‘70s, it took one newspaper, The Washington Post, to destroy the most powerful man in the world, Richard Nixon. Now, the entire American media failed to stop Donald Trump from signing a four-year lease to the White House.
TORONTO—Knowlton Nash, the late CBC anchor of the 1980s, in his book Prime Time at Ten, quoted Jody Powell, press secretary to former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, describing reporters as people “who watch the battle from afar and when it’s over come down the hills to shoot the wounded...
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