"Trump’s words sounds more like they were sharpened in the flames of a cross at a KKK rally than any kind of serious policy. Is it a vulnerability for Harris that her speeches about the border don’t sound like they were drafted by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels? What different election are these journalists watching than the one that’s actually happening?" -- Will Bunch

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/trump-crime-police-violence-cbs-news-debate-fact-check-20241001.html

#Sanewashing
#HarrisWalz2024

"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

Trump’s mental capacity is now topic one

Is he competent to be president? That’s a question journalists should be asking, prominently and relentlessly, until Election Day.

^{Dan Froomkin (Press Watch)}

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

"The corporate media, however, have decided that it is no longer the job of its journalists and pundits to report and analyze information; rather they believe they must translate Donald’s nonsensical ramblings into a version of the English language we can all understand."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MentalDecline #sanewashing
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/translating-the-crazy

Translating the Crazy

Corporate media turns a blind eye

^{Mary L Trump (The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump)}

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

#Trump #media #sanewashing
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https://www.editorialboard.com/the-press-corps-is-trumps-assisted-living-program/

The press corps is Trump’s assisted living program

We are beyond “sane-washing.”

^{John Stoehr (The Editorial Board)}