I was asked recently how to fix this. The solution is simple and has been articulated by many since the start: don’t carry anything he says, live, but record it and report on it with rigorous fact checking from the first coverage.
When people say Trump is a liar, that's not a moral judgment. It's a verifiable fact. A recent speech by Trump included 162(!) misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes. That's more than two lies per minute. www.npr.org/2024/08/11/n...
A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of last Thursday's news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes.
CNN still needs a comeuppance for their relentless 2016 rally coverage/free advertising.
...maybe put up a placeholder page with a progress bar: 37% of text checked 83 lies detected
We clearly need to only print his words only once verified true because then the headlines will pop "Idiot finally says something true!" but it will be like "people like dogs and I don't" or "I'm scared of sharks" and then we can go back to ignoring him.
Not enough. Maggie Haberman "reports" on Trump utterances and interjects fact check footnotes as asides. This obsequious laundering technique serves to amplify his normalization. Reporting tone has to carry opinionated disdain to have impact. Power dynamics are first class components of language.
Politician Pop-up Video.. and the implementation is pretty simple: Record stump speeches, annotate them, record the big speech, use the annotations to speed up creating popups for the video. Pretty sure you could get the delay down to 30 minutes? Maybe less
Do you want to do this with all politicians then that’s fine, but I also think we all know that Trump is an extreme case and it’s fine to treat him as such.
Well, he IS getting older. He used to do much better than that ...
Also: 1. Report MORE on/with the voices of the people *harmed by* his statements, policies, and cultural influence than on him. 2. Stop using him as a frame of reference for all of politics. Report on other things without referencing him. Don't use a Harris press gaggle to spotlight him. FFS.