hartford host michael harrison who is counting down his magazine's annual talkers ten the ten most talked about news stories of the year topic number six often seems like number one michael call me a skeptic call me a media insider but i think that this might be the most mis understood story of the year trump and the media doesn't trump the master of distraction secretly a lot of the adversarial press that always seems to take the bait. well i'll tell you i'm not his psychiatrist so i can't really say for sure what's going on in his head but i suspect observing him closely that he loves a fight and he uses his battle with the media to. to solidify his base and his supporters to galvanize them and he just loves attention he's thin skinned on one level but thick skinned on another very hard to read him that way he still mysterious in that regard and his battle with the media was custom made for his personality he's turned life into one big gigantic political reality show and you have met the president in person since mr trump became president he knows you to be an influencer but in person h