Journalism’s response to Trump: ’The facts are our only proper weapon’

!- Start of DoubleClick Floodlight Tag: Please do not remove Activity name of this tag: UCB001CP Retargeting URL of the webpage where the tag is expected to be placed: http://unknown This tag must be placed between the. UC Berkeley professor Deirdre English is the former editor-in-chief of Mother Jones and a visiting lecturer in UC Berkeleyâ??s Graduate School of Journalism. Berkeley News spoke with English about President Trumpâ??s relationship with the media and some of the challenges facing journalism. What are some of the differences in the way journalists covered candidate Trump and the way they are covering President Trump? Thereâ?'s a famous quote from Leslie Moonves, the current CEO of CBS, saying of Trump's campaign, â''it may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS. I think that on the one hand, the problem continues. Which is to say, Trump continues to throw out all of these different baits and there is a constant feeding frenzy. He contradicts himself, he contradicts his staff, and so sometimes thereâ?'s confusion about what the actual position of the White House is. At the same time, as many have pointed out, in the constant coverage of what was being said, or the lies and the contradictions, journalists are not following the bigger stories and not helping the American people understand whatâ''s going on with Trumpâ''s tax plan, for example. Perhaps the best example of sacrificing the larger picture for the sake of dominating the news cycle is how wrong the media was in predicting the outcome of the election. How is it possible that so many news outlets were so wrong?