More Trump Stories Than We Need

Incidental Intelligence: NY Times Trump Stories

   Do you feel over-TRUMPED? I certainly do. I mostly read the New York Times on the internet and began to feel that wherever I looked there was a story about Donald Trump. (No way could he, though immensely rich, pay for that publicity.) So today, March 13, I decided to check on my impression of what I would call overkill.

   March 13 is a Sunday, so the Times is big, BIG, sporting eleven separate sections from Front Page to Real Estate, leaving out Corrections, which was blank that day. For simplicity’s sake (and to save a huge amount of time) I only counted an article that had TRUMP in its title and not articles that mention TRUMP in their text.

   So how many such articles are there, would you guess, considering that on this day there were no reports of notable debates nor actual primary votes that would have to feature a leading Republican candidate like Donald John Trump?

   Trump stories showed up in four different sections of that Sunday Times: Front Page, National—with two stories each—plus one each in New York and Sunday Review. That makes six TRUMP stories altogether. That on a quiet, not particularly political Sunday. Who will join me in thinking that this is more than we need?

PS The internet version of the  NYTimes of March 15 included five stories with "Trump" in the title, spread over three sections: Front Page, National, and Editorials. Fear not, this is the lasst time I count Trump stories.