"... The great irony is that there absolutely was malfeasance by the media in its coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign — not in how it covered the sitting president, but in how it covered the challenger.
"Donald Trump assaulted the Constitution he had sworn to defend after he
lost reelection in 2020. He invited his followers to Washington long
after the votes had been counted, whipped them up into an angry mob and
then sicced them on his own vice president and Congress to coerce them
into awarding him a second term. [snip]
"The political media’s efforts to normalize him notwithstanding, it was plain from all of Trump’s open talk about revenge and his vows to grab extra-constitutional power that America was risking a slide into autocracy if voters returned him to the White House.
"An even sadder truth is that, faced with a choice between democracy and the promise of cheaper Doritos, America went with the Doritos.
"We were never going to get the latter, and, as is becoming clearer by the day, we’ll be lucky to get through this with some semblance of the former." -- S.V. Date, concluding an op/ed in HuffPo, "Yes, There Was A Media Scandal In 2024. No, It Wasn’t About Joe Biden." There's a certain symmetry after all to myopic Jake Tapper rising to the top of the political media as the Malignant Fascist rose to the top of our political system.
BONUS: They're still at it, of course --
The MAGA movement just basically redubs all Trump appearances so that they don't hear the craziness. It's the way they deal with cognitive dissonance, and that won't change. But then the New York Times helps out with headlines written as if nothing crazy at all happened: /2
— Tom Nichols (@radiofreetom.bsky.social) May 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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WTF, AP? Trump wasn’t just “accused” of “getting facts about [the supposed South African genocide] video ‘twisted’”. He DID get them twisted. He lied about it (or his subordinates lied to him about it). THIS ISN’T IN QUESTION! @froomkin.bsky.social @fairmediawatch.bsky.social
— Left I on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ (@leftiblog.bsky.social) May 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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