Too many in the mainstream press are responding to the big, bold, in-your-face actions of the White House with over-the top rhetoric, historical ignorance, an utter lack of proportion and, in some cases, just plain bias. Some nights on cable TV feel more like a feeding frenzy than journalists covering a new administration. As a society, we are in a moment of frenzied change driven by an incredibly polarizing chief executive, and overheated coverage isn’t helping anyone. It isn’t helping the credibility of the press, which has approval ratings and trust issues as bad as or worse than Trump’s, and more importantly it isn’t helping citizens trying to make sense of life after one of the most shocking election upsets in history.
A call for calmer, more centrist media
