The reelection of Donald Trump has created overwhelming angst among the press. With Trump, they have been like the opposite of the Humpty Dumpty rhyme. The media are all the king’s horses and all the king’s men—and they couldn’t tear Humpty Dumpty apart.
All their screeching about his menace only makes him successful.
Longtime CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl engaged in conversation at the 92nd Street Y in New York City with columnist Peggy Noonan, and they both agreed the legacy media are “fraying”—for 20 years, Noonan insisted.
“I’m extremely worried about the press,” Stahl said, as she dragged out her usual story about Trump and press criticism. “I once asked Donald Trump, why do you keep pounding on the press? This was right after he won, in 2016 … It’s kind of boring, you say the same thing over and over, and you won! It’s time to…
