- Trump is vowing not to be “nice” after his near-fatal shooting at his Pennsylvania rally.
- He initially softened his tone, calling for unity in a speech at the Republican National Convention.
- But he quickly resumed attacks on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
I think the corporate news have done incalculable damage wrt trump but one of those things they’ve done is refused to present him for what he is - demented, a narcissist, and with strong sociopathic tendencies. That’s not even addressing the adderall and/or coke. snif
The ‘normalization’ program is the default for a couple of reasons but they simply are unable to buck it AT ALL and he’s so far off the scale of normal we get this disonnance between their reporting and what he is.
Personally I think the biggest issue beyond the obvious “this sure will get us a lot of views/clicks” is that some outlets try to maintain the perception of “balance”
“Well we CAN’T call them deranged maniacs hell-bent on destroying democracy, or people will say we’re biased!”
“but sir, they ARE deranged maniacs hell-bent on destroying democracy”
“yes, but if we TELL people that, they’ll decide we’re biased”
Considering the NYT editor said that almost verbatim, I’d agree