When Dan Abrams launched Mediaite back in 2008, he envisioned a “fun, little side project.” But, it ended up at the forefront of a new age in which media and politics has been conflated, and are being covered synonymously.
“Trump has taken it to a new level,” Abrams told TheWrap. “He is now viewing the media as the ‘opposition party,’ in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant,” added ABC News’ chief legal anchor and also the founder of Mediaite. “We’ve seen this administration take that concept that we had focused on a while ago, which was looking at the way the media covered the news, and made it the story.”