Sunday Reflection

"... Since those early days, an unusually clear story about Trump seems to have become murkier by the day. That’s not because the central facts have been undercut, but because of the present, hellish nature of our information ecosystem. Since the impeachment process began, Trump’s defenders have deflected and lied to muddy the fact pattern around his conduct. Pundits on Fox News and throughout the online right-wing mediasphere have boosted their signal to millions of Americans. Conservative talking heads and Republican operatives (including, shamefully, sitting United States senators) have sown conspiratorial propaganda right across network and cable TV. Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer who is at the heart of the Ukraine mess, has acted, at times, as a one-man discombobulation machine, spewing streams of consciouslessness and waving weird documents at bewildered anchors." --  Jon Allsop, writing in Columbia Journalism Review on the day malignant moron Donald "Rump" Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives.  Allsop has consistently astute analyses of the media and politics, of which this is a fairly straightforward, inarguable take.  We'll share more of his insights in Monday's Reading.