NEW YORK: Orlando Sentinel Editor-in-Chief Julie Anderson was curious how readers in polarized central Florida would react to her newspaper leading Monday’s edition with a report that President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income tax in 2016 and 2017 and no income tax at all in 10 of the previous 15 years.
By midday Monday, she’d heard from two people. One questioned the report’s timing and another wondered why the paper would run The New York Times’ account without other sources.
That’s a pretty muted response, she said.
It illustrates how hard it is for any news story even a deeply reported one that penetrates the secrecy behind Trump’s finances to change political perceptions or pierce a media shield used by many to reinforce them.
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