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APRIL 4, 2023

Meyerson on TAP

Trump and the

**Prospect**

You'll get the Donald aplenty elsewhere.

As I write, on Tuesday afternoon, all three legacy networks, all three
cable news networks, and for all I know The Food Channel and ESPN-W
(Whatever) are covering the Trump arraignment. More precisely, covering
by helicopter his caravan from Trump Tower to the courthouse, and
covering the closed door of the courtroom.

I'm reminded, of course, of the 24/7 coverage of the O.J. Simpson
freeway "chase" (at 25 mph) and ensuing trial. At the time, I was
serving not (as customarily) as the

**L.A. Weekly**'s number two editor, but as the number one, since we
were between number ones. The media, the smog, the air, were saturated,
drenched, drowned with O.J. all the time. Pervasive as it all was in the
national media, it was even more so in Los Angeles. I could see no way
that the

**Weekly** could add to the daily, hourly, minute-ly coverage of all
things O.J. that continually washed over us.

So we covered only the politics and sociology of it all: the nature of
the LAPD, since it was raised as an issue at trial (we had been raising
it as an issue since the paper was founded in the late 1970s), the
disparate effects the trial was having across the city's far-flung and
wildly diverse communities, and whatever really rattled the city's
underlying tectonic plates.

Our editors and staff have concluded that this is pretty much how the

**Prospect** is going to deal with the Trump legal proceedings that are
beginning today. Unless you're going off both the literal and
informational grid, you'll be able to hear plenty about every nuance,
twist, and turn of the Donald's adventures in legal-land. You won't
hear that from us. About the larger politics and sociology, about how
constituencies and parties are reacting, about its effect on politics,
economics, education, media, general morale-we'll be there. We're
particularly interested in what the case means for a justice system that
has for a long time in this country featured two tiers, one for the rich
and one for the rest.

But we're not going to add to the day-to-day cacophony.

There's a lot else happening. Millions are about to lose their
Medicaid coverage. Public investments are being rolled out, and others
are being ruled out. The Fed may yet plunge the nation into recession.
Workers are restive. The planet's imperiled. Important elections are
taking place today. That's our beat. And when the trial(s) of Trump
affect such matters, as they surely will, that will be our beat, too.

But only when they do.

~ HAROLD MEYERSON

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