In the last programme I told you about the most fundamental change to journalism, that the election of Donald Trump brought about. Instead of reporting the news impartially, the media, especially the New York Times discovered that that wasn’t the best way to run a profitable newspaper business in the late 2010’s.
What newspapers needed to do was to choose sides (and for the New York Times there was only one side to choose) and that was get onto what was cynically, and short sightedly, called the Trump Delusion Syndrome by some, but was really the path to riches. I’m going to tell you how rich the New York Times got from the Trump.
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