1. Since @ggreenwald has asked me for a Mea Culpa for 2016 election, I have to oblige.https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/856143736895655936 …
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2016 was a big test for American journalism, and large, important sectors of the industry bombed it. Now we will all pay the price.
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(print journalism actually did a pretty good job! Cable News defaulted to the lazy, BothSides approach)
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11. Clinton was flawed but no more than Romney or Obama or McCain. Trump was off-the-charts terrible (corruption, racism, misogyny etc).
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12. To extend media covered Trump's terribleness, they felt they needed to "balance" it with critique of Clinton. Hence overplay of emails.
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Genuinely think this was email obsession. Trump kept saying so many disqualifying things, for "balance" they felt compelled to say but email
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this last statement is a huge understatement. 2016 unprecedented and oversimplification will block lessons learned. .
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But not just journalism Trump's takeover of GOP let their voters (older whites) pretend he wasn't the stuff of their dads' WWII nightmares.
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as a Dem candidate or 3rd party, those well-off white uncles who don't know a POC see him for what he is: an ethnic nationalist & demagogue
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To ignore how campaign was covered by broadcast/cable TV, when DJT was created as nat'l entity by TV decades ago ignores a critical factor.
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TV coverage drastically different from print. If no TV, just print, voters would have known DJT's crookedness exceeded HRC's on multilevel.
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