Analysis: Even as Trump wages almost daily attacks on individual reporters and news organizations, he arguably has the most frequent and informal personal interactions with the media of any president since Kennedy
Why is the mainstream media so agitated about President Donald Trump’s close relationship with Fox News host Sean Hannity? A right-wing critic emails with a taunt: “Everybody loved it when Bradlee and Kennedy were in bed together.”New Yorkerof the president’s symbiotic relationship with Fox News arresting—Trump and Hannity supposedly talk off-the-record nearly every night after his show, among other evidence amassed by writer Jane Mayer—but I’m not especially worked up about it.
The media figures Trump talks to informally go beyond his well-documented phone calls with sympathetic commentators like Hannity and Lou Dobbs.
The main theme of presidential conversations, of course, is not social frivolities but the same subject that animates Trump on Twitter and in public remarks: what a great job he believes he is doing, and his conviction that he is not getting enough credit. “He wants to interact with reporters,” Baker said. “He loves the press and hates the press at the same time. … He can’t stop himself from wanting to engage.”
Whatever the motive, Trump is at least partially reversing a historic trend that has been at work for five decades. In his 1975 book, "," Bradlee described frequent dinners with JFK while serving as Washington bureau chief of, conversing with him after prime-time news conferences about how the performance had gone and trading appraisals of other reporters and hearing Kennedy’s advice about who Bradlee should try to hire.
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