John Stoehr turns a cold eye on media malfeasance in letting Trump off the hook again and again and sanewashing his nonsense babble, since
"If he’s unfit to communicate, he’s unfit to serve."
And the media have an obligation to tell us this, not to function as "Trump’s assisted living program" and impose coherence, order, and meaning on meaningless spates of words.
John Stoehr
https://www.editorialboard.com/the-press-corps-is-trumps-assisted-living-program/
Reminder from @TheGuardian that the mess that is today’s news coverage of Trump started in 2016:
“in a scathing analysis of 2016 election coverage, the Columbia Journalism Review noted that ‘in just six days, The New York Times ran as many cover stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails as they did about all policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election’.”
#USPolitics
#JournalisticMalpractice
#sanewashing
#Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/trump-clinton-harris-election
"After the June debate that so clearly exposed Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, news coverage questioning his competence to hold office for another term was seemingly never-ending, and for good reason. The end result, of course, was that Biden took himself out of the race and endorsed Kamala Harris.
Now Trump has had a debate that raises serious questions about his competence."
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/trumps-mental-capacity-is-now-topic
