They havent learned a thing about how to cover Trump
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Nearly eight years ago, Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower and rode a massive wave of media coverage to the Republican nomination and eventually the White House.
Yesterday, the mainstream media showed that they haven’t learned a damn thing since then about how to cover Trump.
All day long, cable news relentlessly followed Trump’s every move and hung on his every word. TV’s talking heads seem positively giddy to have their favorite character back in the spotlight.
The criminal charges against Trump are historic and should be covered. But the corporate media’s breathless by-the-minute updates helped Trump raise millions for his... war chest and expand his lead for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
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While Trump’s personal scandals are once again dominating the news cycle, the most dangerous elements of his legacy have quietly become the new status quo.
Slashed corporate taxes and gutted regulations. Dramatic increases in military spending. Harsh crackdowns at the U.S.-Mexico border. All these have continued under the Biden administration’s “return to normal” — but without Trump’s bombastic rhetoric, they’ve fallen out of the headlines.
Meanwhile, the violent far-right extremists Trump enabled have become part of the GOP mainstream. Even if Trump himself doesn’t land back in the White House, he’s opened a lane a mile wide for authoritarian and openly bigoted leaders to come.
We urgently need to undo the damage of the Trump era. But instead of holding Trump accountable, too much of the media is repeating the same 24/7 circus that empowered him in the first place.
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