What I mean when I say a bigger issue than the lie-vs.-other-word debate is whether Trump's extreme dishonesty gets covered at all: try to find a story on that rally that notes he said more than a dozen things that weren't true, or just notes he was mostly detached from reality.
His lies and other false claims get called out on Twitter a bit. And then the actual stories just quote him saying untrue things without correcting them, or pick out a newsworthy argument or attack without noting that the speech was dominated by unprecedented dishonesty.
Trump's unprecedentedly dishonest, unprecedentedly unfocused speeches are crammed into a normal-political-speech-article template, with any semblance of fact-checking relegated to a sidebar later in the week or not done at all. It Is Bad. Good night!
