Cable Is Eager for a New Season of the Trump Show - The Atlantic

The wall-to-wall coverage of Trump’s arraignment shows how quickly the lessons of his election have been forgotten.

The Trump Show is back. The former president’s arrest on felony charges of falsifying business records related to a hush-money payment to the adult-film actor Stormy Daniels inspired cable-news networks to return to wall-to-wall Donald Trump coverage, once a staple of their programming. The first-ever arraignment of a former president on criminal charges is a massive story, no question about it. But by itself that doesn’t really explain the minute-by-minute broadcasting of his private plane arriving in New York Monday or the blanket coverage of his speech yesterday evening. That kind of satura

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