Memo To Journalists: Stop Sucking At Journalism
At the Washington Post, Todd Gitlin has a long list of specific suggestion about how to interview Donald Trump more effectively, which I would unfairly summarize as follows:
Stop being a bunch of lazy, incompetent, power-fcking groupies and do your god damn job!
But, Mr. Driftglass, being a bunch of lazy, incompetent, power-fucking groupies is our job.
Sigh,
From the WaPo:
Donald Trump’s secret for avoiding hard questions
Too many interviewers aren't asking the follow-up.
Early in this campaign season, Sunday morning network news hosts granted Trump the special prerogative of phoning in for interviews...
In those debates, and in interviews, Trump regularly runs circles around interviewers because they pare their follow-up questions down to a minimum, or none at all...
He takes advantage of the slipshod, shallow techniques journalism has made routine, particularly on TV — techniques that, in the past, were sufficient to trip up less-media-savvy candidates — but that Trump knows how to sidestep...
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski regularly host Trump, but almost never interrogate him...