“What if the press had taken Trump's coup attempt more seriously over the last two months, instead of waving his strategy off as "performance art" and "bad sportsmanship"?
“What if national media outlets had refused to play any role in the GOP's attempt to denigrate the election process by denying a platform to Republican members of Congress who refused to say Joe Biden had won the election?”
“*What if news outlets had accurately described Trump as an authoritarian ruler throughout his first term?”
“What if while churning out ceaseless Trump Voters stories, reporters, especially at the New York Times, had addressed the dark undemocratic forces driving the right-wing movement,”
"What if the press hadn't invented new rules and treated every Trump utterance as breaking news, with every minute of every White House briefing aired live?"
"What if Trump's personality disorders hadn't become the third rail of American politics?
What if the press had told the truth about Trump's unhinged and demented presidential rallies, instead of politely calling them "fiery"?"
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"Something has clearly changed in the Peach State, as Democrats posted record turnout in counties outside Atlanta. The press ought to respect that and stop assuming Republicans are going to win the Senate before a single runoff vote is counted. "
NYT, WP, and Politico all rushed out stories assuming McConnell would be Senate leader during Biden's first term — they all assumed GA runoffs were layups for GOP
doomsday scenario: Dems win both races by small margins and once again GOP launches massive campaign to steal the wins.
“And has the press learned anything over the last two months while covering the GOP's increasingly seditious, fascist attempt to overturn Joe Biden's election victory?”
read that headline three times and tell me NYT isn’t just a broken institution, completely ill-equipped to handle Trump era; nytimes.com/2020/12/30/us/…
Hawley is unequivocally calling for election results to be overturned, something no sitting Senator in US history has ever advocated
and NYT politely types it up as “answering Trump’s call.” whatever the F that means
there aren’t two sentences in that 1,100-word NYT story that adequately capture the radical recklessness of Hawley’s actions