"Some healthy soul searching is taking place in newsrooms across the country these days over whether the mainstream media should be covering President Trumpās every tweet and rally," Friedman wrote. "My answer: Absolutely! Itās the right thing for us to do professionally, and, as last nightās election results indicated, itās the right thing to do politically if you want to see a check on Donald Trumpās power."
"No question that the press should not allow itself to be props at Trumpās rallies, and that can be dealt with by using a single pool camera that feeds all the networks, or reporters just sitting among the rally attendees, not in a special pen," he wrote. "But the whole country needs to see every tweet, every rally, every word and every reaction so that they can ask themselves: 'Is this who I want my kids to see as our president? Are these the people with whom I want to be aligned?' Itās too late to move Trumpās core base on these questions, but I would not give up on his passive supporters."
