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Donald Trump and Late-Night: Two (Completely Different) Strategies

On Tuesday evening, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel offered telling case studies in covering the president.
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In February, the New York Times technology columnist Farhad Manjoo tried an experiment: He ignored news about Donald Trump for a week. Or, more specifically, he tried to ignore news about Donald Trump. What Manjoo found is that, even if one is actively trying to read or hear or learn about anything else in this big, teeming world of ours—even when one is seeking out information about the extremely large percentage of the human population that is not Donald Trump—the 45th president was unavoidable.

“The new president doesn’t simply dominate national and political news,” Manjoo wrote.

During my week of attempted Trump abstinence, I noticed something deeper: He has taken up semipermanent residence on every outlet of any kind, political or not. He is no

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