Sam Sanders
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
Is Donald Trump the Next President?
I think it's like outrage has replaced sex as the thing that sells the most. When we are incensed and when we feel superior and when we are disgusted, we engage more than ever. And so some of why the news coverage lean so far into the negative is because Donald Trump, the most negative president ever was easy to cover. Twitter really took over journalism. A lot of the journalism around politics and writ large is basically tweets and story form and the tweets. I think for a lot of national news coverage, they're pulling from Twitter and they're coming from tweeters.
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