"The Archives acknowledged in a statement this week that it made multiple alterations to the photo of the 2017 Women’s March showcased at the museum, blurring signs held by marchers that were critical of Trump." washingtonpost.com/local/national… Done so as to avoid "political controversy.”
It's about government, not journalism, but this story captures so well why we carry on with the critique of his "normalization." The Archives' attempt to avoid controversy requires that it distort the record, the opposite of its public mission. And you get the controversy anyway.
In journalism I have called this "the production of innocence." pressthink.org/2013/10/the-pr… It's not just false balance, but a continuous "public showing by professional journalists that they have no politics themselves, no views of their own, no side, no stake, no ideology."
