The U.S. is not in a Civil War nor a Depression. There is civil strife, from violent protests to the Capitol siege, & the pandemic & lockdowns have devastated many businesses & jobs, yet it is the job of journalists to report using accurate terminology & without the dramatics.
https://twitter.com/philiprucker/status/1352617271877918721
Double byline on this story, yet Rahm Emanuel is allowed to claim blatantly false things. Not a single line in there to point out that the U.S. is not, in fact, engaged in a civil war nor going through a depression.
Also, Rahm Emanuel lists five things, so he actually should've said "F, all of the above" if we're doing the Scantron thing, but that's not the main point here.
I get that some journos want to make things seem as awful as possible right now (things are bad enough - why make stuff up?) & set the bar as low as they can to do some beat sweetening & to help Biden out, but you'd think the CNN fiasco yesterday would've been some lesson here.
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