The Media Is Obsessed With Trump’s Tweets – We Should Know Better

How to deal with a president’s desire for attention

Felix M. Simon
Viewpoints
Published in
6 min readDec 3, 2017

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By now it’s an all too familiar story. Every time US-President Donald Trump tweets something particularly outrageous, the media follows up with a range of articles chronicling and interpreting his latest Twitter extravaganza. So was the case when he recently attacked

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Felix M. Simon
Viewpoints

DPhil at Oxford Internet Institute & Research Assistant Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Uni of Oxford. Fellow Tow Center, Columbia University