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“Citizen Trump: A One Man Show” Author Robert Orlando asks, “Are Conservatives Just Getting the Media They Deserve?”
TV, films, books fixate on East and West Coasts: What happened to the stories about everyone else?
Donald Trump knows the media better than they ever knew him. According to the author of Simon & Schuster’s Citizen Trump: A One Man Show, the media is now ignoring a vastly under-served market.
Author (and film director) Robert Orlando says Trump’s removal from social media and Rush Limbaugh’s death jolted the media landscape. Trump may be coming back with his own social media platform, but where’s the non-political media serving Trump’s 75 million supporters?
“Conservatives ‘own’ news about politics, but who’s telling the rest of their story?” Orlando’s book argues. “No American political figure better understood — or was less frightened by — the raw power of media than Donald Trump, who once dreamed of being a filmmaker.
“Trump’s media savvy seized the public stage and advanced a nationalist agenda: his supporters are ignored.”
Orlando asks: “Are we just getting the media we deserve?”
