GROUPTHINK CHORUS EMERGES AT TRUMP TRIAL. Covering former President Donald Trump‘s trial on television is a difficult job. There are no cameras in the courtroom, so TV news has to rely on quick messages from staffers watching the trial in an overflow room in the Manhattan courthouse where Trump is being tried for making false bookkeeping entries concerning a nondisclosure agreement he had with the porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Without being able to televise the proceedings, some news networks that are committed to wall-to-wall coverage of the trial, primarily CNN and MSNBC*, are reduced to filling the time with talk. A lot of talk. Judging by the first day’s coverage, they’re not satisfied with devoting hours of airtime to a discussion of bookkeeping minutiae, so they have moved on to expansive theorizing about how Trump might have “interfered” with the 2016 election by allegedly paying Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged sexual encounter.
