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Whatever, so i think theres a role for me and other journalists at every available opportunity correct misinformation with accurate information. >> so daniel, that is a noble cause and obviously, in this business, i think thats the right approach, but do you worry that readers and in my case viewers are getting inundated with this constant fact checking and it kind of becomes noise? >> i think there is some of that problem. i think of it as an avalanche problem. you know, trump creates this aval...

No? >> i think there are a lot of problems still that have not been corrected from 2016. i think the consensus media perception of what they did wrong in 2016 was not give sufficient attention to trump voters in trump country. i think weve seen the extreme over correction to something that wasnt a problem in the first place with this flood of stories from pennsylvania, going to talk to people in diners. there were a host of other problems from the disproportionate e-mail coverage to insufficient...

Avalanche problem. what he does is flood the zone, flood the public, flood the media with literally dozens of controversies or scandals at the same time when his opponents usually have one or two. and the paradox of that is that the person who has one or two is most likely to suffer the effects of the public remembering those knowing a lot about those than the candidate who has, you know, 30 or 50 about whom the public might know a tiny little bit about each one but not remember the details. so ...