It’s damn near impossible to turn on a cable-news show and not see Kellyanne Conway sitting there, doing verbal parkour to try to explain how whatever awful thing Donald Trump (or his press secretary) just did was actually neither offensive nor terrifying, and really, it’s all the media’s fault, and did you know they won the election and people need to get over it? To put it plainly, she’s the absolute worst.
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So why have her on television? Recently, NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen went on the Recode Media podcast with Peter Kafka and laid out a pretty compelling case for why these news shows should no longer agree to have Conway on.
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