May 6, 2018
We often think back to where we were when we first heard about a life altering or world changing event. And as we do, we think about the emotions and thoughts that those events triggered. A White House Press Corps that falls over themselves to distance themselves form a comic sho spoke truth to power. The remarkable performance of Rudolph Giuliani and the rapid shift in the President's tweets from "Rudi's got it right" to "he has to get his facts right." What is truth? Where is truth? And is the news media even less capable of providing us with the information we need as citizens. Or are they locked in a race to the bottom? In the wake of these events, Gini Dietrich, Martin Waxman and Joseph Thornley revisit how we felt in the days after President Trump was elected. We struggled then, as we do now, to understand the new President, the people around him, and the effectiveness of news media outlets weakened by a deterioration in their business and distribution models. So, after several weeks of reflecting on Facebook and social media, let's take a step back and replay our conversation from Inside PR 464 about the new Trump administration and whether the news media is too weakened to do its job. And as you listen to it, we think you'll find that the questions we asked in January 2017 are as apt today as they were then.