Gordon Campbell: Gordon Campbell On Surviving The 47th US President

Three weeks in, and the 24/7 news cycle is not helping anyone feel calm and informed about the second Trump presidency. After only three weeks, it is already exhausting. It hits the incredulity button one day, only to have to walk it back (somewhat, entirely) the next, or leap onwards to the next outlandish claim. Serious changes to legal rights and entitlements bob around among the frivolities. If having an informed public is the ultimate aim, then we have to find a different way of reporting on Donald Trump. We can’t continue to report his every utterance as gospel.