Wondering what "sanewashing" is? Also known as a âbias toward coherence..." (And I bet you can imagine who benefits from that.) This is a solid introduction and explainer. editorandpublisher.com/stories/the-... by Rob Tornoe
As the 2024 election cycle heats up, a new buzzword is making waves in media circles: âsanewashing.â The term refers to how some media outlets sanitize Donald Trumpâs often incoherent and erratic rema...
"CBSâs decision [not to fact check the debate] is mostly significant as an indication of how powerful institutions will bend to Trump should he win the presidency. Many are bending already, when he has no official power and is behind in the polls." â Brian Beutler www.offmessage.net/p/media-ince...
Capitulation is complicity.
Been chuckling at this all morning. He seems not to realize that he's given the game away by allowing the official, agreed upon name of what they oppose to be... fact checking! So it comes across as, "Guys, we had a deal. Making stuff up is ALLOWED. Did you read that part?"
The more I think about this, the more appalled I am at the #BrokenTimes' ageism: as if Trump's bilious bigotry, dangerous derangement, & insidious incitement are all attributable to age--every Grandpa a Nazi-in-waiting--rather than to Trump's innate racism, misogyny, authoritarianism, and fascism.
The #BrokenTimes harped on Biden's age & now finally discovers Trump's. OK, but this is a form of sane-washing, for the bigger issue is his deep derangement: Trumpâs Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/u...
With the passage of time, the 78-year-old former presidentâs speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past, according to a revie...
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