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12 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
my latest—media keep pushing non-story; pressrun.media/p/who-cares-if…
“It's slightly jarring that in the wake of the Trump presidency, when Americans were urged to inject bleach as a way to combat Covid-19, that Biden sometimes wearing a cloth facial covering is treated as a pressing news story by the Beltway media. “
“wearing a mask while being fully vaccinated is a personal choice, and it's a choice that has no effective downside, so why is the press so focused on the topic?”
desperate for gotcha moments vs a popular Dem president, this is all the press has??

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Eric Boehlert Profile picture
13 May
what happened to the border “crisis”? I guess media packets up their bags
more here; pressrun.media/p/the-washingt…
“One month after falsely blaming the Biden administration for creating a crisis at the southern border, the Washington Post remains oddly reserved regarding good news about the plummeting number of migrant youths now held in U.S. detention centers.”
Read 4 tweets
Eric Boehlert Profile picture
12 May
remember in January when DC press was sure the GOP was going to stand up to Trump?

press has gotten this story wrong for five years in a row.

amazing. pressrun.media/p/memo-to-medi…
" the press remains committed to portraying the GOP as a mainstream, center-right entity. That's why it keeps botching the "reckoning" story — reporters assume there is a Republican breaking point with Trump and the politics of hate and revenge he represents. But there never is"
"the Beltway press badly misread the insurrection story and assumed so-called responsible members of the GOP would do the right thing. "
Read 6 tweets
Eric Boehlert Profile picture
12 May
quick thread on media claim that Biden sometimes wearing mask is driving vaccine hesitancy — that he's signaling there's no light at end of tunnel, and vaccine doesn't work

spoiler: it's a really dopey idea; pressrun.media/p/who-cares-if…
The evidence is overwhelming that the people who refuse to get vaccinated are made up largely of white, conservative, Trump supporters who have treated the pandemic as a partisan issue and who refused to wear masks last year.
Taking their cues from Trump who spent much of 2020 mocking people who wore masks as being "politically correct," they lean towards thinking the virus was a hoax.
Read 4 tweets
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10 May
thread re: NYT and its awful, illogical fear of calling out Trump "lies" over the years.

and its sudden change of heart. 1/7 pressrun.media/p/no-longer-se…
in 2016, editor Dean Baquet *bragged* abt how the Times called Trump a liar and warned that using "falsehood" was giving him a pass. 2/7
when Trump claimed unexpected victory, NYT sprinted into a retreat and danced around "lies" while covering a pathological liar. 3/7
Read 7 tweets
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6 May
four months after Trump leaves office, NYT puts “lies” in headline

progress, I guess....
it’s confirmation that NYT could’ve done this for 5 yrs.

it chose not to
funny what happens when NYT no longer seeks access
Read 5 tweets
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6 May
my latest—a media low point from Trump era; pressrun.media/p/judge-confir…
“Now that a federal judge has confirmed that the press got played, badly, what's the media response going to be? Will there by any introspection, will editors and producers reflect on how and why they got taken for a ride on one of the most important news stories of 2019?”
“The likely answer is no to all those questions, because when it comes to being honest and open about grave blunders the press made while covering Trump, there's no appetite for it, except when the criticism comes from conservatives screaming "liberal media bias."
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