The 4 Stages of Trump Reporting

A moment of reflection at the BuzzFeed RNC party from Gawker's Andy Cush.

Gawker staff writer Andy Cush tweeted that his summary of Tuesday night’s “Red, White and Blacklisted” party hosted at the RNC by BuzzFeed was written “just for John Cook.” But we took a peek as well.

The item is a fun summary of the event. Especially when Cush sums up what the experience of covering Trump has felt like to him personally:

I’ve spent that [last] year watching the campaign’s forward march and its imperviousness to criticism and basic reporting, first with amusement, then in denial, then in dumb shock, then with hollow resignation to the powerlessness of journalism.

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