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I asked @DavidMDrucker where he got his statement in Vanity Fair that "Trump brings a certain gravitas" to the presidency, since I have never heard anyone in either party observe that, and all the evidence contradicts it. vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/w… He answered me. Next slide please.
This is his answer. Apparently anonymous sources in the party told him that, and he worded the conclusion so it reads as a natural fact— not "insiders in the party say..." but just something everyone knows. Gravitas.
Still, the entertainment value in this explanation should be credited. "Listen, you didn't get this from me, okay? But Trump brings a certain gravitas to the presidency..." Anonymous sources say their guy is awesome.
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Over the last few days, it's become clearer and clearer to me that, without intervention, coverage of the 2020 campaign is likely to be a disaster for everyone except Trump and his core voters, who want to watch it all burn anyway. In this thread I describe the danger I see. 1/
By "disaster for everyone," I mean all candidates opposing Trump, journalists themselves, voters from all sides (except those who have exited from the news system by merging with his hate campaign against the news media) and anyone who seeks the repair of American democracy. 2/
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I don't know how our journalists came to see "storytelling" as the heart of what they do, and "storyteller" as a self-description. I can think of 4-5 elements of journalism more central than "story." Truthtelling, grounding public conversation in fact, verification... listening.
Read @ub14 on how bizarre the centrality of "story" can seem. "After I left law for journalism, I learned that journalists do, in fact, call the people in their stories 'characters.' I remember how astonished I was when I learned that..." Good piece. niemanlab.org/2018/12/the-st…
Or, on the same point — how did journalists come to see themselves a society's storytellers and what are the costs of this misfit self-conception? — read @jeffjarvis on the Der Spiegel scandal, which is all about this. The seduction of storytelling: medium.com/whither-news/t…
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Lots of truth here about what centrist ideology demands and being called "partisan." Other factors too. A sunk cost fallacy: years of failing to describe the GOP as the high deficit, starve-the-beast party gave reporters a psychological investment in continuing the charade.) And—
You know that tone of voice people summon when they say, "Hate to tell you this, but..." It's the bearer-of-difficult-news voice. DC journalists are vulnerable to this affectation: that they are the bearers of difficult budget news. They thought they saw in Ryan a kindred spirit.
Another way to understand this sad, bitterly comic, but ultimately pathetic error is the counter-factual. If there really was in charge of the GOP a fiscal disciplinarian who knew the numbers and had the will, what would that have meant for the story DC journalists get to tell?
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