The best thing the media can do now to protect our democracy (assuming they want to protect our democracy) is to not give Trump any coverage. And if you feel you have to provide coverage do it without videos. The Trump cult will disappear if it is starved from the endless videos, sound bites, photos, comments, lies, even repeated gaffes of which there are hundreds. The media should even give the impeachment short shrift. Don't make a big deal of it. You know the Republicans won't. There's no chance the GOP will convict Trump, so why magnify their treachery. Without endless coverage Trump fans will realize how unimportant Trump is. And without coverage Trump himself will wither from insignificance. For four years the media, notably the broadcast media, has given Trump all the attention and spotlight he could possibly want. It made him stronger, won him millions of gullible cultists, brainwashed half a nation. Now it's time to pull the plug.
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