Traditional media taking a long time to learn how to handle a candidate who regularly lies, and raises dangers to democratic institutions
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The need for an evenhanded narrative that gave equal attention to the relatively small email issues compared to the slew of Trump stories:
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stories of potential sexual assault, tax evasion, uncertain business interests which could put a future president in a position of weakness
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while many of these stories got eventually covered, the email issue consumed so much oxygen
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This was made much worse by cable news, which had incentive to build Trump up for drama/ratings, selling it as reality TV and not serious
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and outlets giving oxygen to fringe pundits with unsupported and irresponsible theories, all in name of even-handedness
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And rise of incendiary and false news sites such as Breitbart, which mangle the truth and more importantly provide an alternative reality
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It is a reality that allows Trump's base of non-college educated whites to really believe nonsense about it all being rigged against Trump
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and the nonsense by Trump, amplified by faux media, further amps up the crowds against the press and democratic institutions
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Language about taking the country "back" further fuels a backward-looking move to what for many Americans were the bad-old days.
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6/ So there's lots of anxiety out there. for good reason. And I hope that the country can begin to heal Nov. 9. But I'm anxious too <end>
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We should all be anxious but also need to try to come together and heal after this enormous season of rifts between ideologies.
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Has gone way beyond rifts in ideologies.
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