The question with the many, many people in media like Acosta is: Are they shamelessly lying because they know damn well Trump has said it before, or have they actually convinced themselves to forget he said it, because they're so utterly invested in this narrative?
I'm genuinely curious about this. I could believe either explanation. A LOT of DNC Media reporters feel perfectly justified in lying and concealing facts to achieve their sacred political objectives - especially regarding Trump, who they think is not entitled to fair treatment.
But the "Trump never denounces white supremacy" narrative was so all-encompassing among journalists - including those who personally knew better, like Acosta - that it looked like mass hysteria. Hysterics can easily convince themselves to forget things.
This would not be the first time the mainstream media has become so passionately devoted to a narrative that it completely overrode their ability to perceive objective reality. The Narrative is ALWAYS more real to them than the facts - it's one of the core problems with the MSM.
For decades now, the media has been putting together hive-think Narratives and bending all coverage to suit them, downplaying or embargoing stories that don't fit the Narrative while absurdly overplaying, or even inventing, stories that do. Narrative first, reporting second.
You can see the power of Narrative shaping news when you notice that something the media is utterly obsessed with turns out to be quite rare, while a vastly more common related issue is downplayed. Polls show the public think the media obsession is 10X more common than it is.
The question is: do the reporters KNOW they're wildly overplaying one issue while assiduously downplaying the other, or are they so completely invested in the Narrative that they really think the rare problem is common and the common problem is irrelevant?
It would be interesting to know how much bad reporting is pure cynical lying, and how much is the media's narrow politicized worldview blinding it to any information that would challenge the Narratives it has chosen to believe in. /end
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