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Topic
Board Economics
Re: Is the government really scary?
by
interknit
on 02/10/2018, 20:51:22 UTC
First, it was those billions of dollars in advertising the media forked over gratis during the race for the Republican nomination by focusing on whatever he did, said, or tweeted, day after day, in a way that was new in our world. By the time he hit the campaign trail against Hillary Clinton, he was the ultimate audience magnet and the cameras and reporters were fused to him, so coverage only ballooned, as it did again during the transition months. Now, of course, his presidency is the story of the second—each second of every day—giving us two-plus weeks of coverage the likes of which are historically unique.