The Corporate Media Is Not Covering Trump's Lunacy

[W. Niederhut]

A brief look at stuff Donald Trump has said lately

Kevin Drum

August 31, 2024

This is by no means exhaustive. It's just a short collection of some of the extremely presidential things Donald Trump has said recently. Needless to say, none of it is even remotely true.

• "The transgender thing is an incredible thing. Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation."
• "Hard to believe, they have some states passing legislation where you can execute the baby after birth. It’s crazy."
• "Look at Kamala ... every place she has touched has turned to dooky!"
• "Over the past 4 years, Kamala and Crooked Joe Biden have presided over an economic reign of terror, committing one economic atrocity after another."
• "There will be no future under Comrade Kamala Harris, because she will take us into a Nuclear World War III!"
• "The USA is not ready for a Communist President."
• "MASSIVE SCANDAL! The Harris-Biden Administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics to hide the true extent of the Economic Ruin they have inflicted upon America."

[W. Niederhut]

[W. Niederhut]

It looks like Jeff Bezos and his new Murdoch-esque WaPo management have gone over to the dark side.

I was expecting to see a major front-page WaPo story this morning about the new DOJ outing of Russian propaganda ops to influence the 2024 U.S. election.

There was nothing-- other than a low-level headline about Putin denying allegations of Russian propaganda ops in the U.S.!

This is starting to remind me of the well-documented corporate media shilling for Trump in 2016.

The media tycoons want those Trump tax cuts.

Edited September 5 by W. Niederhut

[Matt Allison]

 

[W. Niederhut]

Finally: Top Journalist Erupts at Media for Ignoring Trump's Mental State

https://newrepublic.com/article/185622/finally-top-journo-erupts-media-ignoring-trumps-mental-state

No paywall link
https://archive.li/8Tb3R

September 5, 2024

For many months, media critics and liberal Democrats have insisted that Donald Trump’s mental unfitness for the presidency is—or should be treated as—a big and important news story in and of itself. If President Biden’s age merited extensive, focused coverage because his fitness for the job is naturally of interest to voters, goes this critique, then surely Trump’s visible incoherence, cognitive impairment, inability to cogently discuss the simplest public matters, and increasingly strange flights of fantasy also deserve equivalent treatment.

This argument has never received an even remotely serious hearing from newsroom leaders at big media organizations. But it might have just become a bit harder to ignore, now that a well-respected veteran journalist has—in a moment of striking candor—called out his colleagues for failing to take Trump’s mental state seriously as a story in its own right.

“We have a damaged, delusional, old man who again might get reelected to the presidency of the United States,” Mike Barnicle, who served as a longtime columnist for The Boston Globe and other newspapers, said on Morning Joe early Wednesday. Barnicle continued that Trump frequently says “deranged” things in public that “you wouldn’t repeat” on “American television” or “in front of your children.”

“How did we get here?” Barnicle asked. Then he pointed a finger at his media colleagues. “Donald Trump can say whatever crazy things he wants to say, about submarines, and sharks, and electric batteries,” Barnicle said. He noted that such things are “not really covered” as a window into “who the man is” or a sign that he’s “out of his mind.”

Edited September 5 by W. Niederhut

[Matt Allison]