Morning editorials have always represented a careful balance between competing narratives. However, since President Trump began his second term, the velocity of news has reached unprecedented levels, overwhelming even the most seasoned editorial teams. Entire stories become obsolete before they can be properly edited, let alone published. Long-form journalism has taken the most brutal hit, as stories spoil faster than milk in the sun.

We had two well-sourced pieces ready for publication. One detailed how a faction of GOP leaders attempted to derail President Trump's much-touted legislative package — a political ambush in broad daylight. The other took aim at CNN's Jake Tapper, who spent years running interference for President Biden's cognitive decline only to write a post-presidency book as if the deception never happened. Both articles were shelved. The reason? Reality moved faster than our publication cycle. In today's climate, and with the attention spans of Americans already defined by the TLDR syndrome (Too Long Didn't Read), a story that's not published within hours might as well be a relic.

For President Trump and his allies, this phenomenon is a double-edged sword. On one hand, any story that does land on the front page has already emerged victorious in a brutal competition for relevance. On the other, the pace of events ensures no follow-up, no depth, and no accountability. News vanishes before its implications are fully understood, let alone acted upon. The Fourth Estate becomes a revolving door of outrage and amnesia.

Ironically, the speed of these news cycles has benefited President Trump. At this point in their second terms, both Barack Obama and George W. Bush were underwater in public approval. Trump, in contrast, maintains relatively high ratings. For the legacy media, this is a bitter pill to swallow. This is not the slow-drip-drip-drip scandal machine of Trump's first term when outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post could drag out a molehill into a month-long mountain. Today, the terrain shifts by the hour.

We won't rehash every headline from the last ten days, but a brief survey illustrates the volatility.

The newly elected German Chancellor's visit to Washington should have dominated coverage. Given the Trump administration's criticism of Germany's Ukraine policy and its draconian crackdown on the right-leaning Alternative for Germany (AfD) party — now deemed unfit for democratic participation by German intelligence — the meeting held significant geopolitical weight. But by the time hands shook, and cameras clicked, the media had already moved on. Ask the average American what came out of that summit — if they even remember it happened.

Instead, newsroom resources were diverted to a relatively routine Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in Los Angeles. ICE has conducted such operations nationwide for years, but the media chose to spotlight this one. Why? Because LA is a major city, California harbors millions of illegal immigrants, and the optics fit a narrative. Left-wing resistance groups seized the moment. The television circus began. Every escalation fed the next — protests, clashes, recriminations.

The Trump administration, elected on a mandate to restore order and enforce immigration law, viewed this as a constitutional obligation — especially in the wake of Biden-era negligence that saw 19 million illegal immigrants enter the country. California's Democratic leadership, including Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom, countered with moralistic appeals to community integrity, even if those communities were built on illegality.

When violence erupted and the LAPD stood down briefly, President Trump ordered the National Guard. The governor objected, but precedent was on Trump's side — echoing the federal deployments that quelled civil unrest in the 1960s. Of course, Governor Newsom took his objections to federal court, hailed a district judge's temporary injunction as a win, and celebrated on camera — only to be slapped down virtually the same evening by a federal appeals court. Now the case drags on, scheduled for a further hearing Tuesday. The New York Times was especially caught flat-footed. It celebrated the district judge's order as even more expansive than the relief that Newsom sought (restricting the National Guard to protect federal buildings), but a decision by the most liberal appeals court voided the Times' victory lap, all in a matter of a few hours.

As the curtains in this West Coast theater drew down, the rest of the world didn't stop — it just got ignored. President Trump announced a breakthrough deal with China: a mutual pause on escalating tariffs—the media response was barely a blip. Russia launched a new assault in Ukraine, targeting parts of the Donbas and fresh regions in the east. Crickets. Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, crashed just seconds after takeoff from Ahmedabad en route to London. It was the first total hull loss for the aircraft model in nearly 16 years. Every passenger but one died — including many on the ground. In any other era, this tragedy would have dominated headlines. In Trump's America, it was buried the next day.

Even the ongoing military exchange between Israel and Iran, triggered by Israeli strikes deep into Iranian territory, is competing for attention. President Trump's role in brokering a last-ditch peace agreement just before the strikes began has confused readers. The Israeli Prime Minister's vow to "continue for as long as it takes" eerily echoed Biden's own Ukraine rhetoric, but the story already feels dated.

Meanwhile, a federal appeals court quietly reinstated Trump's contested tariffs — a rebuke to the New York judges who tried to kill them. Elon Musk reached out publicly to mend fences with Trump, only to be politely dismissed: "I wish him well," Trump said. "But I've moved on."

Back in our newsroom, the Jake Tapper exposé and the GOP sabotage piece were laid to rest. Not for lack of truth, not for lack of reporting, but because in this brutal era of instant obsolescence, the facts aged out of relevance before we could hit 'publish.'

Welcome to journalism in the Trump era. Blink, and it's gone.

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Wednesday, June 18
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