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Eric Boehlert
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Totally disagree.
I mean the idea that if every story isn’t 100% accurate means journalism is doomed strikes me as a very strange measuring stick. journalism isn’t an exact science. there’s push and pull over time. the key is that people are accountable
and good grief where was the hand ringing when anti-Clinton gotcha stories in 2016 imploded?
I just completely reject idea there are special rules for covering Trump and that any wayward report = collapse of journalism
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let’s be perfectly clear abt Covington story—the minute it broke, white male journalists at elite outlets, starting w/ a WSJ reporter, immediately began running interference, trying to obfuscate the ugly, obvious racism on display.
there’s something rotten in the state of Denmark—also, 2016 coverage begins to make more sense
*i want to be clear—I should’ve tweeted “some” white male journalists...
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will they be wearing blackface?
and eating stale burgers?
btw, mindless Trump cultural wars like this, and the proud parading of racism inside the Oval Office, is why I don’t think Kamala Harris’ prosecutorial position on truancy a decade ago is going to be big issue for Dem primary voters this cycle
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Covington kids confirm; m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1…
how many of those endless Trump Voter puff pieces in last 2 yrs ever addressed the dark cultural forces behind the movement? sorry, this ain’t “economic anxiety”
so not only did press invent Trump Voter news beat out of whole cloth (press never cared abt Obama Voters), they completely missed the (racist) story too. quite the one-two combo
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