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How Jeff Zucker Helped Create Donald Trump

September 20, 2020 at 9:42 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Ben Smith writes the story of Donald Trump and Jeff Zucker “is a kind of Frankenstein tale for the late television age, about a brilliant TV executive who lost control of his creation.”

“And it illustrates the extent to which this American moment is still shaped not by the hard logic of politics or the fragmented reality of new media, but by the ineluctable power of TV.”

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