By Erik Wemple

Washington Post

April 6, 2017

 

Since Jan. 20, Washington has received ample indication that nothing is the same anymore. There's been a press briefing merely to berate the media about its coverage of inauguration crowds; there have been presidential tweets about a reality TV show; "Fox & Friends" finally has someone who takes it seriously.

And yet! Perhaps no indicator that the media has veered into terra incognita Trumpi is more sturdy than prime-time cable-news ratings from the past several weeks. So ho-hum have been these numbers over many, many years that they've been barely worth glimpsing.