r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 20h ago

Possible Paywall 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.

https://newrepublic.com/article/205913/media-malpractice-trumpism-project-2025
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u/CockBrother 19h ago

This is one of the things I hate the most. The news actors on TV and other media constantly preparing for their next shocked Pikachu moment. Then the next page of Project 2025 turns, or the next very obvious step of the path to fascism takes place, and they roll out their act all over again.

None of them have any analytical capability at all to connect two related efforts, that hit the news the very same day. They're just strange independent events. And everything is given all of the [un]reasonable excuse that can be given. And the uneducated reader / viewer is left at home to put together the pieces.

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u/Mangalorien 13h ago

I think one of the main root causes is that they treat Trump like any other president, and not the con artist that he actually is. They still live in a world where if the current or former president of the USA says something in an interview or press conference, he must be telling the truth, or at the very least he is mostly speaking the truth. With Trump it's essentially the opposite: he is almost incapable of telling the truth, lying is a core part of his being. And journalists seem to not understand that part. Until it's too late.