Media Culpa

The Political Scene | The New Yorker | Sep 16, 2016

No one has been more surprised by this evolution of this presidential campaign than the press assigned to cover it. What role has the media played in shaping our perceptions of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton? Three of the New Yorker’s  writers--Evan Osnos, Margaret Talbot, and Ben Wallace-Wells--join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how we ended up with two candidates whom voters deeply distrust and dislike.

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