Thread by @EricBoehlert

my latest—end this media obsession; pressrun.media/p/who-cares-if…

“The continued, hand-holding coverage — “brainwashing” is virtually never used — represents the latest example of the press helping to normalize irrational, nihilistic behavior by Trump followers.”

“This imprudent fixation represents Both Sides journalism taken to an absurd extreme where the radical, barely-there minority is held up as being equally important and newsworthy as the vast majority.”

just noticed in pic, the sign from anti-vax protest reads "You may not mandate the murder of our children"

so yeah, i totally understand why press treats these people as sane.

“Question: If there were an unhinged far-left movement where grown men and women walked out on their careers because they refused to wear shoes and shirts to work, would they receive sympathetic press coverage?

Or would their mental health be rightfully questioned?”