"Here are two diametrically opposed descriptions of reality." You have to get to paragraph *12* before the piece states some actual facts, & even then it never clearly ties those facts to the lies in the opening paragraph. It never clearly takes a side between the two realities.
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The right way to start paragraph 3 would have been: "Donald Trump is wrong. The pandemic is as bad as ever, the economy is in worse shape than its been in a half-century, & America's suburbs are fine. Trump is spinning a web of lies while Biden is accurately describing reality."
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Conventional mainstream journalism so often reads as though it is *consciously designed* to be useless.
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Speaking of which, let's add this, from the pinnacle of uselessness, Chris Cillizza. A close analysis of whether a man who lies about literally everything, who has lied tens of thousands of times, who lies like breathing, is lying. Who can know?
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"A sliver of truth" that there's an unchecked pandemic raging, unemployment is at record highs, and there have been repeated social protests at the extrajudicial murder of Black people...
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But don't forget the sliver of truth that the pandemic is over, and the economy has come roaring back. You must allow for that sliver too. It says here.
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Oh come on AP! One version is deluded. One is accurate. It’s not just “they both have a sliver of truth”!!!!
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What the actual fuck is this both sideism?
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