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I have this dream that he gets up there with the task force behind him, and after his rambling boasts in a language that sounds like English run through a wood chipper, the moment for questions comes— and no one asks him a damn thing. All the Q's go to the people who know stuff.
Having thought it through as many ways as I can, my conclusion is that there is no justification — from within the public service logic of journalism — for continuing with coronavirus questions to Trump in the briefing room. The results are not just misleading, they are harmful.
No justification for the briefing room ritual IF the goal is to inform the public and equip people to make smart decisions. Other logics are available. It's fresh content. It glamorizes journalism. It creates conflict, which can be engaging. But from a public information POV? No.
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It is believed by many people who follow me that tougher, more confrontational questions — and more determined follow-ups — are the answer to press briefings on the virus that allow Trump to elude accountability.

I disagree. It's is one of my least popular conclusions. THREAD 1/
In my view, the lens through which we should interpret the briefings is how to increase the supply and circulation of good information about the virus and what has to be done, and decrease the spread of misinformation, strategic distraction, magical thinking, etc. 2/
From this POV, a key point to begin at is that Trump at the podium and on TV is the single most potent force for misinforming Americans about the dangers of the virus and what needs to be done now. Yet he is also the star and central figure in the briefings. See the problem? 3/
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Thread! I did my PhD dissertation 34 years ago on the concept of "the public" as the body that is said to be informed by the press. I had to digest everything that was written about what a modern public is, why we care about it, what public opinion is, how it comes into being. 1/
Like the weather, or the news, "the public" is one of those terms we know so well from everyday speech that it can be difficult to think with— or about. The most heroic attempt was made by the American philosopher John Dewey in his 1927 classic, 'The Public and its Problems.' 2/
I want to isolate one part of Dewey's definition of the public because it bears on our current struggle with the coronavirus. This is from my 1999 book, 'What are Journalists For?' yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030007… 3/
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