[Kermit]

"It seemed as if, finally, politics had triumphed over media trashing."

Actually, the media did everything in its power to save, promote, nuture Bill Clinton. Don Hewitt orchestrated that interview and later claimed to have elected Bill Clinton, for him that was a positive. The trash was Bill Clinton and his Famiglia, not the media. It's too bad the media never trashed Bill Clinton, even to this day.

[okie01]

"It seemed as if, finally, politics had triumphed over media trashing."

Or, more accurately, media trash triumphed over politics.