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Notes from a Fiasco - Columbia Journalism Review

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For thirty-four minutes on Wednesday afternoon, Donald Trump, former president of the United States, current Republican nominee for that same office, and popularizer of the idea that the free press is “the enemy of the people,” held forth about his achievements in office (“the best president for the Black population since Abraham Lincoln”); the purported deficiencies of his Democratic opponent, who he alleged had not passed the bar exam; and the “nasty” disposition of one of his interviewers at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago. The audience in the packed Waldorf ballroom at the Chicago Hilton at various points gasped, sighed, and grumbled in response to the discussion taking place between Trump and three Black women interviewers. Word of the invitation for Trump to participate in a staged Q&A at the convention was divisive among the organization’s ranks. Karen Attiah of the Washington Post resigned her position as a co-chair of the convention in the w

Notes from a Fiasco - Columbia Journalism Review --> b Donald Trump with the NABJ moderators: from left, ABC's Rachel Scott, Semafor's Nadia Goba, and Fox News's Harris Faulkner. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) b Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter . For thirty-four minutes on Wednesday afternoon, Donald Trump, former president of the United States, current Republican nominee for that same office, and popularizer of the idea that the free press is “the enemy of the people,” held forth about his achievements in office (“the best president for the Black population since Abraham Lincoln”); the p

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