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Sanewashing
Sanewashing
Margaret Sullivan, former public editor at The New York Times: “Why does the media sanewash Trump? It’s all a part of the false-equivalence I’ve been writing about here in which candidates are equalized as an ongoing gesture of performative fairness.”
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Sanewashing
Clicks
Clicks
Tristan Snell: “Remember, the media industrial complex has a strong interest in raining on every Joe Biden parade — and giving Trump oxygen — so they can try to recapture the ratings and clicks they had when Trump was president.”
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Clicks
Elections of the future
Elections of the future
The Associated Press’s announcement of a Democratic nominee, an announcement made on the eve of major primaries and seven weeks before the party’s convention, is to my mind a low point in journalism.
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Elections of the future
Eyes on the plane
Eyes on the plane
Andrew Sullivan’s recent lament about the failure of “elites” to protect democracy from the likes of Donald Trump misses the point that Trump’s candidacy is itself the product of an elite — not a political elite but a media elite, one that has kept Trump (and even his parked plane) front and center for months now.
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Eyes on the plane
Murdoch’s issues
Murdoch’s issues
“Murdoch’s phrasing places blame not on individual agents but on difficulties and problems that were somehow in the air. It’s like a driver blaming issues with alcohol for the damage to his car.”
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Murdoch’s issues