How Trump Got So Damn Good at TV

Television critic James Poniewozik’s new book ‘Audience of One’ examines how ‘The Apprentice’ and Fox News gave us President Trump

Saul Austerlitz
GEN
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8 min readSep 10, 2019

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InIn the aftermath of the 2016 election, many political journalists looked for answers to the question of “how did we get here?” in Rust Belt towns, taking the pulse of white, working-class…

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Saul Austerlitz
GEN
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Author of Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era +4 more. Work published in the NY Times and many others. Teacher at NYU.