If you missed it earlier this week, my 400-word explainer for why the press keeps normalizing Trump when it knows...http://pressthink.org/2017/09/normalizing-trump-incredibly-brief-explainer/ …
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Replying to @jayrosen_nyu
Save a few clownish exceptions, the press is overwhelmingly hostile toward Trump. Perhaps unprecedentedly so. Your critique omits this.
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Replying to @mtracey
The threat has no precedent. And the press is, as I said, tempted to fit his actions into a template drawn from prior presidencies.
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Replying to @jayrosen_nyu
First, "the threat has no precedent" is a highly debatable assumption common among mainstream, savvy journalists and pundits.
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Replying to @mtracey @jayrosen_nyu
The Iraq war and the worldwide torture regime launched just last decade are certainly relevant "precedents" for potential "threats."
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Replying to @mtracey @jayrosen_nyu
And second, referencing templates from prior presidencies is prudent; not merely a byproduct of some unseemly desire to "normalize."
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Replying to @mtracey @jayrosen_nyu
For example -- understanding how Trump, supposedly a world-historic threat, has failed to staff the government requires looking at history.
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Replying to @mtracey @jayrosen_nyu
In general I think the nature of ingroup journalistic "savviness" has shifted under Trump, and your critique has failed to account for that.
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