For those of us in the United States unlucky or foolhardy enough to still be in receipt of the “news alert”, the flood of notifications in recent weeks has been destabilising. I’m struck, again and again (and again, and again) by how poorly the news media – of which I am a very low-profile member – has managed to move with these frenzied times. Whereas a US presidential utterance was once a matter of automatic newsworthiness, there’s a robust case to be made that the 47th presidency needs a whole new standard applied to it. Well within the once-relevant “first…

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