The “24-Hour News Psychos” Edition
Rational Security
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How to Cover Trump
Lawrence Lessig: I think that part of what we're seeing is that news organizations like talking about Trump because people like to read things about Trump and they like to watch things about Trump. And so there's a very self-reinforcing aspect to all of this, which I think I'm drawing here a little bit on a point that Adam Sir were made in a piece in The Atlantic. But it does feel to me like there's a little more sophistication there in contextualizing what he's saying, explaining why this is important, all that kind of thing. He says the press has done a decent job and contextualizing it along those lines.
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