Donald Trump holds a press conference in 2015. Photo courtesy Michael Vadon/CC BY-SA 2.0.

Trump and why emotion triumphs over fact when everyone is the media

By Alfred Hermida for The Conversation The playwright Arthur Miller mused in 1961: “A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.” The assertion seems oddly quaint now – at a time when the US elected a president who was continually at odds with the press. Donald Trump intentionally positioned himself as an outsider…