Charles Blow for the win NYT "Stop Airing Trump's Briefings!"
The media is allowing disinformation to appear as news.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/opinion/trump-coronavirus-briefings.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
Around this time four years ago, the media world was all abuzz over an analysis by mediaQuant, a company that tracks what is known as “earned media” coverage of political candidates. Earned media is free media.
The firm computed that Donald Trump had “earned” a whopping $2 billion of coverage, dwarfing the value earned by all other candidates, Republican and Democrat, even as he had only purchased about $10 million of paid advertising.
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Simply put, the media was complicit in Trump’s rise. Trump was macabre theater, a man self-immolating in real time, one who was destined to lose, but who could provide entertainment, content and yes, profits while he lasted.
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Let me be clear: Under no circumstance should these briefings be carried live. Doing so is a mistake bordering on journalistic malpractice. Everything a president does or says should be documented but airing all of it, unfiltered, is lazy and irresponsible.
snip - read it all (and sorry about the paywall).
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I stand with Charles Blow on this. I've never watched a second of the orange asshole.
I propose a new DU group - a self flagellation, "can't look away even though it makes me miserable" sort of self-help/therapy group. Why? Why put yourselves through it day after day and then post how miserable it makes you feel? I simply don't get it.
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