From her position as an editor for the Whitehouse bureau of the _L.A. Times_, Jackie Calmes shares what she has learned about covering the Trump administration and compares it to her 2015 Shorenstein paper on how conservative media has influenced politics. [![racism\_in\_boston](http://forum-network.org/media/lecture\_images/Jackie\_Calmes2017-300.png)](http://news.wgbh.org/2017/10/25/politics-government/power-conservative-media-u-s-politics "") **» SEE ALSO:**[ Jackie Calmes' interview with WGBH News.](http://news.wgbh.org/2017/10/25/politics-government/power-conservative-media-u-s-politics"") (Photos: "White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and WH Chief Strategist Steve Bannon shake hands at 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)" "Sean Hannity speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland" and "Newt Gingrich speaking at CPAC 2013 in Washington, DC." by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons)
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