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This omission, in both local and national news, is the reason I started listing his lies in 2016. And it persists. Most of the rally coverage is still “Trump speaks to big excited crowd, insults X and Y, talks policy Z.” “Trump says 24 untrue things” goes entirely unmentioned.
Here are some very typical examples from last night: 
And of course it’s worth reporting on Trump’s new policy comments, new disparaging of people, whatever. But surely there is room somewhere in these stories to report on the incessant lying, and it almost never happens.
To me, the frequency and brazenness of the dishonesty is usually the most notable thing about the speech. Others can reasonably disagree. Regardless, it’s odd that such a prominent feature is frequently not mentioned at all, let alone made the headline. /end
