The Made-for-TV Impeachment
On July 24, in the glare of television lights, Mueller, the former special counsel, came across like a statistician, a dry reciter of data. Both witnesses talked about President Donald Trump, but only today’s was made for TV. As a concept, the Capitol Hill hearing may no longer be quite the same riveting spectacle it was in the days of Watergate, Iran-Contra, Clarence Thomas’s contested Supreme Court confirmation, or Bill Clinton’s impeachment—if only because today’s media environment is so fragmented and fractured.
