In The Nation, Eric Alterman writes:
“When Trump was the host of The Apprentice, according to a supervising editor on the series, the editors’ ‘first priority on every episode…was to reverse-engineer the show to make it look like his judgment had some basis in reality. Sometimes it would be very hard to do.’ Unfortunately, many in the mainstream media have defined their jobs the same way. And this time, thanks to the coronavirus, the results will be deadly.”