Presidents are not all-powerful, but, if elected, Donald Trump would have some influence with the federal regulators who oversee major television networks.

We now see independent media folks that literally reach in the millions on social media platforms where you can have an unmediated pathway to people. So for all those reasons, this campaign has sought out ways to embrace it.

It took a reference to Arnold Palmer’s penis to get more mainstream reporters to tell it like it is. That’s progress.