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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.”
#media#NewYorkTimes#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Sanewashing
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.
#media#politics
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
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.
#culture#media#politics#television
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Eyes on the plane