make his way to his home in midtown. a couple of thoughts. this indictment is now doing for the former president what launching his campaign at the beginning could not do. that is get attention nonstop attention. i was just in my office watching four different channels cover the plane landing in la guardia. some of them had different cameras from the water and the air. other sides. nonstop. wall-to-wall coverage. we saw this ahead of the 2016 election as well. that is we said that then businessman donald trump was going to be talking. we would put up and we re guilty of it as well, empty podiums waiting for him to get to the podium. this now, coverage of this, is
this journey today? this “ourney today? well, i have to tell this journey today? well, i have to tell ou this journey today? well, i have to tell you that this journey today? well, i have to tell you that in this journey today? well, i have to tell you that in between this journey today? well, i have to tell you that in between tourists i tell you that in between tourists and every day new yorkers, they are really soaking in the spectacle. it has grabbed their attention just because, again, just how unprecedented this is a step donald trump, while he for a long time faded from the public view, he firmly has the public s attention in his grip once more. we ve actually seen wall to wall coverage tracking every step of his journey from when his private boeing 757 aircraft took off their leaving to his supporters at the airport. we have tens of thousands of people tracking his flight, according to one website, waiting for when he will arrive here in new york. but i can tell you is
this journey today? this “ourney today? well, i have to tell this journey today? well, i have to tell ou this journey today? well, i have to tell you that this journey today? well, i have to tell you that in this journey today? well, i have to tell you that in between this journey today? well, i have to tell you that in between tourists i tell you that in between tourists and every day new yorkers, they are really soaking in the spectacle. it has grabbed their attention just because, again, just how unprecedented this is a step donald trump, while he for a long time faded from the public view, he firmly has the public s attention in his grip once more. we ve actually seen wall to wall coverage tracking every step of his journey from when his private boeing 757 aircraft took off their leaving to his supporters at the airport. we have tens of thousands of people tracking his flight, according to one website, waiting for when he will arrive here in new york. but i can tell you is
a presidential arrival. the pictures, you know, the plane on the way into the airport, the way that we followed him, the flight tracker, this is how we would follow a us president to arriving on a foreign visit to the uk. it s not that. it s a former president, in ordinary civilian who has been indicted. yeah christian i have heard those same comments. the media is following in the same traps that it did in the 2016 presidential election, giving him wall to wall coverage. and donald trump himself or someone who has always believed in the idea that no presses bad press. and we have seen him really leveraging this coverage to get her supporters energised, rallied up. as you say, at the end of the day this is a former president who is coming to face criminal charges. i think the counterargument is that this is of such historical importance, such
2015 of his presidential prime to mark the beginning of wall-to-wall coverage of his candidacy by every news outlet. if trump makes another run in 2024, however, my next guest says we can t cover him like that again. joining me now is margaret sullivan at, media critic and author of newsroom confidential from an instinct life. margaret, it is great to see you. welcome to the sunday show. thanks so much, jonathan. thanks for having me. margaret, whether the press got a wrong in covering trump as a candidate and in as president? well we and i include all of us in this i think. we normalized him. we allowed him to spew lies and misinformation by repetition.