"The political media did not create Donald Trump," says David Leonhardt, editor of The Upshot for The New York Times. In fact, if calculations are correct, interest in Trump is actually outstripping coverage. But still: how to explain media fervor over unserious candidates like Trump this month and Herman Cain in 2012? Leonhardt talks to Brooke about the media's real power in the boom-and-bust cycles of political coverage, and why the extra scrutiny could extinguish Trump's flare sooner.
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