Noted: Jonathan Gray, a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed that shows were shying away from Trump. “Classically, a lot of TV shows didn’t really talk about the presidency anyway,” he said. “You’ve now got a whole sort of ecosystem of satire, between [late night satire shows] and SNL and so forth. I wonder if some writers just feel like that’s being taken care of elsewhere. I’d imagine that some writers feel that you [shouldn’t] ‘feed the troll,’ because he’s everywhere, and when we find somewhere where he’s not, we wonder why he’s not there.”
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