Dan GillmorFeb 11, 2024

For Trump (and Republicans in general), America's political journalists consistently normalize lies, corruption, racism, misogyny, and blatantly obvious mental confusion. If it's covered as a story, it's a one-day story and everyone moves on.

But Big Journalism rakes Biden and prominent Democrats over the coals when they violate any one of those norms -- in "news" eruptions that go on and on.

This isn't a media blind spot. The only logical explanation at this point is that it's willful.

Show threadBen RamseyFeb 11, 2024
@dangillmor It must sell clicks and make money because many journalists, at least on the surface, appear to lean toward the left, so why do they self-sabotage?
Show threadTom Bellin 

@ramsey @dangillmor journalists are not more liberal than the general population. It's an interesting phenomenon, though. I think the act of reporting makes a person sympathetic to their subjects (which makes them seem liberal) while also highlighting how ineffectual our democratic institutions can be.

So, while their sympathies may be with the liberal agenda, their cynical worldview says that these problems can only be fixed by a strongman.

Feb 11, 2024 at 6:01pmWeb