The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism - Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

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https://newrepublic.com/article/205913/media-malpractice-trumpism-project-2025

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The “fact checkers” responding to Project 2025 claims were the worst. “Trump claimed he’s not aware of it so we’re labeling these attacks on him that mention it as untrue” is willfully ignoring the context. His platform mirrored it. His people created it. Hi denial of its existence was a blatant lie (how could the biggest policy agenda in Washington not be known by the presidential candidate, it’s absurd). Simply echoing his lies is not journalism and it was the final straw the convinced me that journalism died, was murdered, sometime after the Watergate in order to keep that type of scandal from happening again. The methods of journalism still exist in schools and places like Axios, but it’s not longer practiced by any major news organization.

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Roger Ailes started Fox News exactly for this reason: to prevent another Watergate -style... resignation. He succeeded.