I had followed Dan Kennedy’s work as a media critic going all the way back to his days on the old Boston Phoenix. So when first the Boston Globe and then the Washington Post sold to big-name non-newspaper guys in 2013, Dan and I finally had a big project to work on together. Although the economic decline of newspapers was well advanced, there was no way we could have foreseen the current war on news in the age of Trump. This is an example of a current events book aligning perfectly with, you know, current events.