News media have continued their 24/7 attacks on Donald Trump without pausing for breath, even as the election campaign ended and the presidential transition began.

Their constant indiscriminate fire makes the purveyors of news and punditry like the boy who cried wolf. To the public, it’s now just irritating background noise from the ranks of the losing party’s supporters. But this means that, like those who heard the boy cry wolf, people are not alert when something genuinely troubling comes along. The avalanche of stories about general “disarray” at Trump Tower should not, however, obscure a genuine problem relating to the appointment of Stephen Bannon, former Breitbart chairman, as Trump’s chief strategist.