From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

We devote this hour to the question put to us pretty much hourly since Election Day.

How do you cover a president who seems impervious to the normal constraints of civility, checks and balances,

traditional values, and most importantly, reality, who threatens the press while firing off

tweets like a gattling gun, with proposals ranging from the unlawful to the impossible to the

indecipherable. Well, Bob spent the week talking to our colleagues

in a profession that, as we know, did not cover itself with glory during the campaign to learn if they've

gotten any closer to an answer. This is where I'm supposed to establish the premise for a story

about covering the Donald Trump presidency.

But no need for that.

Ray Locker of USA Today has done it for me.

He abides by none of the normal rules that anybody who has been elected president abides by.

Yes, inauguration is still seven weeks away and and we're already in Bizarro World.

His own victory rally. Oh, you're going to be happy. We're all going to be happy. I'm here today for one main

reason to say thank you to Ohio.

A coming to your TV soon news conference, like a David Blaine special in which Trump promises

to make his worldwide conflicts of interest disappear.

The president has to divest himself

of these business holdings to avoid these conflicts,

covering everything from worker health and safety issues, worker rights that you

were discussing, treatment of government contractors to consumer protection.

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