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-Yesterday Trump went beyond "normal" nonstop lies w at least two claims that are certifiably demented:
1) That his crowds are bigger than MLK's historic throng for 'I have a dream,' and 2) that he survived a helicopter close-call with Willie Brown, which Brown says Did Not Occur.

-The countdown is how long it will be until we have *front-page* stories in NYT, WaPo, or WSJ that parallel the scores we saw about Biden. Eg:
"Party insiders concerned about nominee's increasing errors." "Fit to govern? Whispers about nominee grow." "Too old? Polls show mounting public concern." "The question that needs to be addressed: Can this candidate handle the complexities of the White House?" "Brain doctors explain pattern of mistakes, attacks, and fantasies."
We saw all of these stories about Biden.

-For a fair comparison, I am looking for front-page stories, in those three leading papers.

I haven't seen any, which means it's now Day 1 of covering Trump by an easily-observable standard of difference from Biden.

Just add a reply here when you have a sighting. 2/2 And apparently there was some helicopter close-call ... with an entirely different Black politician.

Remember the *front page* coverage for Biden saying "president of Mexico" rather than "president of Egypt"? Ready for comparable front-page stories about this.

Framing, as always, is in the details.

Look which word is in quotes ["we're keeping our distance from this"] in the subhead: Lies.

Look which term is presented straight ["no need to question or caveat this"]: Free speech.

This can only come from decades of working-the-refs. 2/2

And they absolutely went with it on the inside page.

Essay question: How does this differ from the way Fox would have framed the news? Or Trump's own team?

1/4 Superb article by my friend Lincoln Caplan on realities of elite-admissions system and the affirmative action ruling.

He knows aff action (wrote a book about it); knows law; knows Harvard; knows how to write.

Please read it all here ,
But highlightsharvardmagazine.com/2023/06/harvar… 2/4

On the realities of a purely "merit based" system: Places like Harvard could fill their entire class several times over with people who have perfect GPAs and SAT scores.

So admissions is by definition subjective and purposeful.

If you're wondering, Fox is playing the Trump / E Jean Carroll relatively straight. (Testimony was 'devastating' etc) 2/ But now they have Ronna Romney McDaniel, 'I think people's attention will be on the southern border.' And fentanyl, TikTok, etc. Waiting for trans and CRT

1/ On Carter / Reagan / Ben Barnes / Iran:

-Most of today's US population *had not yet been born* at the time of 1980 Carter / Reagan election.

-Roughly 1/5th were of voting / news-consuming age back then.

So collective memory is faint on reality that at the time ... 2/ ... MOST PEOPLE ASSUMED that Iranian hostage takers, and regime, were pulling for Reagan.

-They hated Carter.
-They did everything they could to humiliate him.
-His (failed) rescue mission was huge millstone for re-election

OF COURSE the Iranians were anti-Carter and pro-RR

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Geographic aspect to current Kevin McCarthy coverage:

If he were from some place that is household name for cycle of struggle, recovery, tough survivors, canny politics, modern recovery, whatever, we'd hear that constantly.

Imagine if he were from ... /cont: 2/
—Hills of West Virginia;
—Former steel town in Midwest;
—Now-recovering textile town in South;
Family farm in Iowa;
—Ex-tobacco country of Ky;
—Border town in Tx;
—Wind-lashed settlement on Maine coast;
—Rocky mtn place Co/Wy/Id
—Las Vegas
—Anyplace in Louisiana

1/n Here's something about flying "general aviation" airplanes— basically everything but airliners or the military, from tiny crop dusters to big corporate jets.

Most of what you do is *public information.* Registration and tail numbers of airplanes. Certificate info on pilots. 2/
Audio of you talking to air traffic controllers. Flight plans you have filed, with origin and destination. "ADS-B" info identifying specific planes en route.

It is nothing like driving a car. (Even with occasional license-plate scanners.)

Everything is "on the record."

1/n

Worth reading as example of headline skewing, separate from story.

Step 1: Current NYT headline.

Tl:DR tech problems prefigure larger econ problems.

nytimes.com/2022/10/26/tec…

BUT ... 2/n

Next part of story says that tech woes are not that bad.