If your assessment is that out of incompetence and self-interest the President is putting American lives at risk, that should be the theme of your news coverage.
If you are unable to make that assessment, that should be a focus of your efforts.
If you are unwilling, retire.
If you are unable to make that assessment, that should be a focus of your efforts.
If you are unwilling, retire.
there’s no mention on the front page of nytimes.com of the fact that the president of the united states made public comments about coronavirus today that indicate he is incapable of competently addressing a public health emergency — and, worse, *unwilling* to do so. 
Trump’s gonna get people killed, out of ego and incompetence, and the New York Times *does not give a fuck.*
If we found out at lunch Hillary Clinton had gone two days without updating the apps on her phone, there’d have been six NYT articles online before dinner.
If we found out at lunch Hillary Clinton had gone two days without updating the apps on her phone, there’d have been six NYT articles online before dinner.
CNN.com front page:
1 headline about a Trump supporter saying coronavirus doesn’t exist
1 headline about an affair Bill Clinton had a quarter century ago
0 headlines about Trump bungling a public health crisis
1 headline about a Trump supporter saying coronavirus doesn’t exist
1 headline about an affair Bill Clinton had a quarter century ago
0 headlines about Trump bungling a public health crisis
CBS News has devoted essentially it’s entire front page above-the-scroll to the most important news of the day:
Kim Kardashian visiting the White House.
Kim Kardashian visiting the White House.
Over at ABC News, two headlines mention Trump: One is about a scheduling matter; the other suggests hey maybe coronavirus is no big deal?
Fox News trots out a TV doctor to suggest coronavirus is a liberal media plot or something, I don’t know, I’m definitely not clicking that link
anyway, my extremely controversial view is that *it's really important that the president of the United States is probably going to get people killed through both incompetence and malice*
but of course if you were a news company and you were honest and proportional in your coverage of how dangerous the madman in the White House is, that would raise some ~inconvenient~ questions about your coverage of 2016 so let’s all just avert our eyes and hope for the best
this is obviously true and the fact that it needs to be said is itself a crisis
The headline on Peter Baker’s New York Times piece on Trump’s dangerous and dishonest CDC comments is itself dangerous and dishonest.
This is simply not a reasonable, neutral presentation of what happened. It is propaganda that masks the president’s unfitness.
This is simply not a reasonable, neutral presentation of what happened. It is propaganda that masks the president’s unfitness.
This prediction held up alarmingly well.
