The View From Nowhere and Access Journalism have crippled reporting in covering Trump.

Imagine you're talking on the phone and the other person is Donald Trump. How long before you interrupt him, and say, look -- I'm tired of you talking over me, I want to be an equal participant in this conversation? And then when he just kept talking, how long before you hang up? Well, you can't because:

You're not there (the view from nowhere) and

If you did he wouldn't talk to you next time (access).

So every conversation with every reporter is exactly teh same. He repeats himself over and over and never talks about anything you care about.

Voters can hang up, we aren't part of the VFN and we don't have access, but so many people these days behave as if they are an insider, a member of the savvy elite, they follow their lead from what the professional journalists do and say. That's why an obvious virus like Trump is allowed to run wild.

PS: John Oliver has the best takedown I've seen of Trump. It's direct and not forgiving, and he disclaims both the VFN and any interest in having access.

PPS: The View From Nowhere concept is Jay Rosen's.