President-elect Donald Trump is eight weeks away from being sworn in, but he’s already having an impact on the economy with his new pledge to seek higher tariffs on some of our largest trading partners. Why are so few newsrooms explaining that, in plain English, what Trump actually said is that he’s pledging to seek higher prices for consumers? We’ll talk about media coverage of the Trump transition with veteran Chicago journalist Jennifer Schulze.

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