France Sees 'Window' To End Wars In Gaza, Lebanon After Trump's Victory

American mainstream media (MSM) is caught in the whirlwind of the country’s domestic politics. Until the rise of Mr. Trump and his populism, American MSM and its political and strategic establishment had a cosy relationship where nearly all opinion makers agreed on the basics.

The complete manifestation of this mutual reinforcement of the country’s politics and its media peaked with ‘embedded’ reporting, literally, of the Iraq war. The questioning of American political and economic order and its foreign policy remained on the margins of public discourse until Mr. Trump built a political movement around it.

MSM journalists — a group overwhelmingly dominated by self-identified Democrats — concluded by the end of the 2016 election that objective reporting was not desirable any more. In fact, a segment of journalists even doubted whether critical reporting of Hillary Clinton in 2016 enabled the rise of Mr. Trump, and by implication, endangered democracy.