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How The News Industry Will Change If Trump Loses The Election, And How It’ll Stay The Same
The 45th President of the United States has been a boon for journalism. If he loses the 2020 election, how will things change?
After the host of The Apprentice formally announced his presidential candidacy in 2015, Donald J. Trump became a golden goose for the news industry. Not only was he already a public figure of significant interest, but his brand of politics was so shocking and offbeat that you either covered him because he would get you eyeballs and clicks, or you covered him because he was creating such a storm that it would be borderline journalistic negligence to not report it. Oftentimes it was both, which made Donald Trump the perfect storm for journalists big and small.
Then he got elected. Then Sean Spicer tried to gaslight Americans by insisting that Trump’s inauguration crowd was bigger than it actually was. Then Kellyanne Conway introduced the world to “alternative facts”, inadvertently spiking the sales of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Then Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Then he got into a Twitter feud with Kim Jong Un. Then there was the Mueller investigation. It just kept coming. And journalists were there at every turn to report on the newest…
