{"id":9947,"date":"2017-06-13T12:49:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T10:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/?p=9947"},"modified":"2017-06-13T12:49:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T10:49:52","slug":"the-shamelessness-of-trump-is-an-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/blog\/the-shamelessness-of-trump-is-an-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"“The shamelessness of Trump is an innovation”"},"content":{"rendered":"

3 Questions to Scott Lewis, Editor in Chief of the Voice of San Diego \u2013 about Trump and the media, the new role of journalism and how to deal with a constant stream of lies. <\/strong> By Jana Luck and Miguel Helm, JONA\/KAS<\/em>
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Scott Lewis, Editor in Chief \u201eVoice of San Diego\u201c. Picture: Andreas Domma<\/p><\/div>\n

Whereas some people say, the media are lying, other people \u2013 like you \u2013 say, Trump is lying. How can these two groups get into dialogue again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think that the mere declaration of different statements is not helpful. To say \u201che is lying\u201d doesn\u00b4t achieve anything.<\/p>\n

We have to share the same conversation. There has to be more shared experiences. Like the hearing of the former FBI-director: that\u00b4s something that everybody watched and had to deal with and there were a lot of completely different takes that came out of it. That\u00b4s fine, but saying \u201che\u00b4s a liar\u201d, \u201che\u00b4s not a liar\u201d or \u201cthe media is the enemy\u201d; that\u00b4s not going to lead anywhere.<\/p>\n

Journalists need to show their work and explain their concepts. I also think entertainment is really important \u2013 if you can pierce through the whole noise and stand out as something that is attractive and entertaining, you can rebuild some of that process of cultural understanding.<\/p>\n

Trump is constantly lying. Why are there not consequences of it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What would the consequence be? Impeachment? Impeachment characterizes a criminal prosecution; but it really is a political decision. I think it\u00b4s too early to expect that a party would turn on a very recently elected member of their party who is now president. They are simply not willing to yet.<\/p>\n

Humility from Trump, would that be the consequence? I think that\u00b4s what we are all expecting, right? We\u00b4ll do a big story and he\u00b4ll be like \u201cboy I\u00b4m sorry I did that\u201d \u2013 but he\u00b4s never going to do that. Not him. Trump would never show humility.<\/p>\n

Trump\u00b4s shamelessness is one of his best political attributes. Politicians before him got into trouble because they lied about things and then the lie became the bigger issue. Not Trump. The shamelessness of Trump is an innovation. What we are learning is that a lot of the things, the norms and rules that we had, were all just based on this: norms and rules. Not on law.<\/p>\n

How should the media deal with the fact that politicians don\u00b4t need them anymore to voice their opinions, that they can do it directly, just as Trump does via Twitter?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We can\u00b4t stop that. It\u00b4s gonna happen. And somebody is going to be even better at it than Trump. I think our role as a journalist changed. Being the funnel for information, taking information from one person and giving it to another \u2013 that job is over. That\u00b4s gonna happen automatically or through other techniques. I think our role as media is now split into two parts. One: To make sense of what is said. And two: to find out what is not said, what is not wanted to be said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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