I traveled to Chicago Monday to appear on a panel on “The Trump Presidency and the Media.” I want to expand on one of the points I made. “Covering Donald Trump is harder than covering Barack Obama for a couple of reasons,” I argued.

1. Trump and his administration speak falsely and sloppily much more than previous presidents.
2. When reporting and explaining the misdeeds of Trump, we now have a lot more competition from the rest of the media than we did when we were reporting on the misdeeds of President Obama.

I gave a few examples of stories that under Trump would be major front-page splashes with MSNBC and CNN coverage across a whole day, but which I had almost to myself under Obama. Take a second and imagine these stories under Trump.