"The media have often had a difficult time fully contextualizing and
conveying Trump’s extremism. That’s understandable. His brand of
demagogic politics undermines deeply held assumptions within the media.
The national press long has been guided by the fundamental belief that
both sides of the country’s political debate are generally morally
equivalent—or, at least, that it’s not up to journalists to judge—and
each deserve the same reporting approach. Yet Trump, with his continuing
assault on democracy, is different and challenges this model. That is,
he breaks it. As he heads further down this perilous (for the nation)
path, conventional political coverage will not be sufficient. Like
climate change, a pandemic, or a financial crisis, Trump, a would-be,
Constitution-defying autocrat, and those enabling and supporting him
jeopardize the nation. He and his movement ought to be covered not as
yet another subject for the politics section but as a direct danger to
American democracy." -- Mother Jones' David Corn on the media's continuing inability to meet the moment in covering the Christofascist Republican Party and its cult leader. This is probably the hundredth time we've posted something about the media's inability to draw a bright line in its coverage of that distinctly un-American, increasingly violent movement, to the point that ... well, there's really no point in pointing it out because we know that virtually nothing will change the media's coverage of this existential threat.
