Tips for reporting on Trump: Assume the worst and dismiss the context

By Eddie Scarry

Published May 20, 2017 12:00pm ET

Tips for reporting on Trump: Assume the worst and dismiss the context — The defections by young Republicans actually accelerated after President Trump had been a front-runner and after the Republican obstruction of Congress, suggesting these may not have been the principal drivers of the rapid decline, which accelerated after December 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) | Andrew Harnik

If the national media didn’t lace their most consequential reports in innuendo and assumptions of the worst, they would be almost entirely unremarkable.

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