LA Times Executive Editor: ‘Media Is Really President Trump’s Cocaine’

RUSH EXCERPT:

STELTER: "You don’t think it hurts your reporters in the field?"
PEARLSTINE: "It absolutely hurts our reporters, but media is really President Trump’s cocaine. He cannot exist without it."
STELTER: "That’s an interesting way to put it. So, as he’s saying that we’re almost treasonist in our commentary, you’re saying he’s addicted to us at the same time."
PEARLSTINE: "Absolutely. If he didn’t have us to rail against, he’d have to fill up the air time with something else."