Will the Alt-Right Media Dump Trump?

If there was one thing which made the 2016 Presidential campaign different from all previous campaigns, it was the degree to which the news media not only chose sides but promoted one candidate or the other in very biased and unbalanced ways.

This was particularly true with Fox, whose coverage of the Trump campaign seemed at times to be produced by the campaign itself. Not only did the various Fox spielers like Hannity and Carlson make a point of talking about Trump in the most positive, almost sycophantic ways, but I don’t recall a single day during the campaign in which Trump wasn’t the subject of interviews multiple times.

Except Trump wasn’t interviewed the way we usually think interviews should be played. He was never asked a difficult question, he was never corrected when he said something that was totally and completely outrageously wrong, even when he repeated an obviously false statement again and again.

Not only did Trump serve up pat answers to the most softball questions that have ever been asked of anyone in public life, but he often gave the same prepared answer to the same question as if he was reading from a script, which he often was.

Using Fox as his media operation not only saved Trump a lot of money during the 2016 campaign, but the Trump/Fox love fest continued during Trump’s White…