From The Washington Post: This media failure really could help Trump politically
By GREG SARGENT
We constantly talk about the news media’s failure to aggressively call out President Trump’s serial lies. We talk somewhat less often about the media’s failure to adequately convey just how deeply corrupt and absurd Trump’s explicitly stated positions really are (a somewhat lonely obsession of this blog).
But there’s a third way in which Trump challenges the media that generates far less attention than either of those: the ways in which the conventions of political reporting often constrain reporters from conveying just how crazy, depraved and saturated in malice and hate some of his rally performances are.
Vox’s Aaron Rupar has a fascinating but deeply dispiriting look at one such example. After Trump’s rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday night, an NPR segment basically sanitized away all of the wretchedness and insanity.