“A multimedia impeachment trial: Video takes center stage.”

Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor of television, radio and film and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the Newhouse School, was quoted in the Associated Press story “A multimedia impeachment trial: Video takes center stage.” During former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial his lawyers utilized manipulated videos, even some TikToks, in their argument. Thompson, an expert on popular culture, says the videos highlighted the defense’s “slight of hand.” “The prosecution, right from the get-go, was very effective, the only question one might have is whether they repeated that effectiveness too much,” Thompson says.