The Trump brownout post-Jan 6 obscures and shields Republicans from a lot of genuinely newsworthy craziness. E.g., I didn’t know til I got to the 17th paragraph of this piece 5 days later that Trump admitted the point of his election lies is to cheat. rollcall.com/2022/01/19/bac
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And it’s 17 paragraphs in because it came in second to some other newsworthy lies.
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I get the bind the platforms were in (morally, legally, commercially) after Trump used their services to incite an insurrection. But there’s a lot of space short of “point the camera at Trump and broadcast him live” and I think traditional media may have missed the sweet spot.
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This is unreal, and the reporters pretending to believe that there’s anything untoward about Biden observing, quite accurately that Trump and his allies are trying to subvert the 2022 elections, and may well succeed, should be ashamed.
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The press took Biden's "illegitimate" quote - a word the reporter fed him in their question - wildly out of context, now they're acting like @PressSec is "cleaning up" when she is literally just repeating what he said because they didn't listen to the whole answer. Guys, c'mon
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Trump, literally five days ago: Republicans should throw out Democratic ballots and seize power based on false vote tallies.
Reporter: Biden’s claim that the midterms may not be legitimate are very Trumpy are they not 🤔!?!
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Utterly context-free trash. Viewers worse informed than if they simply hadn’t watched.
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On Biden election comments, @GarrettHaake: "The comments came right in the middle of this debate on the voting rights legislation over in the senate, and several Republican senators seized on them as evidence, they said, that the president was politicizing this issue." #AMRstaff
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This is also not great. There’s nothing to clarify. If Republicans in the states do what Trump is instructing them to do, and as they are lining up to do, election integrity will be badly compromised. If it’s a breach of norms to say that, then the norms are bad.
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Lets be clear: @potus was not casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2022 election. He was making the opposite point: In 2020, a record number of voters turned out in the face of a pandemic, and election officials made sure they could vote and have those votes counted.
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