Trump trial as spectacle: Not like OJ, but a media frenzy all the same

Former President Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial has featured gripping, and at times steamy, testimony from a former tabloid publisher on the secrets of his business, a porn star on her alleged tryst with Mr. Trump, and a former Trump lawyer on how his boss allegedly paid to silence the porn star.

For the media outlets reporting on every twist and turn, the month-long event has provided a steady stream of content for readers and viewers – despite the fact that, at heart, the case is actually about the falsification of business records. By all accounts the jurors, too, have paid rapt attention.