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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPerspective: "The media has turned a corner and is normalizing Trump less,
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"I do think a corner has been turned in the way hes being covered, Nate Silver, editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight.com, the data-driven news organization, told me in a phone interview Monday.
Theres just a degree of directness in the way things are being stated that feels new.....
The other possibility is that public support for the Houses impeachment inquiry may have stiffened the presss spine. A slim majority of Americans, according to recent research from Gallup, support not only impeachment but also removing Trump from office.
Silver suggests a different dynamic.
The myth of Trump as a brilliant tactician has been punctured, he said initially by the results of the midterm elections and then by the increasingly-hard-to-defend decisions and events that have followed, which have caused even stalwart Republican loyalists to criticize him, even if only anonymously and behind the scenes.
Theres just a degree of directness in the way things are being stated that feels new.....
The other possibility is that public support for the Houses impeachment inquiry may have stiffened the presss spine. A slim majority of Americans, according to recent research from Gallup, support not only impeachment but also removing Trump from office.
Silver suggests a different dynamic.
The myth of Trump as a brilliant tactician has been punctured, he said initially by the results of the midterm elections and then by the increasingly-hard-to-defend decisions and events that have followed, which have caused even stalwart Republican loyalists to criticize him, even if only anonymously and behind the scenes.
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Perspective: "The media has turned a corner and is normalizing Trump less, (Original Post)
Gothmog
Oct 2019
OP
gerunds? gerunds?? How the heck does that apply? You haven't explained at all
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2019
#5
OK, get your drift. But your modification of the phrase has introduced a participle, not a gerund.
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2019
#7
The US media lost me years ago. No matter what they do I'll never come back to them.
abqtommy
Oct 2019
#8
LAS14
(13,749 posts)1. I noticed this a couple of months ago and posted a question to DU. Not a lot..
... of response. I'm glad to see this opinion in the Post. It was the Biden story that brought it to my attention. I don't think I heard or read a single media report that didn't accompany reference to the Biden "investigation" with something like "false" or "unsubstantiated" or "baseless." I was very relieved.
malaise
(267,823 posts)3. True but M$Greedia continued to suggest that Ukraine was
asked to dig up dirt on the Bidens when the truth is that they were asked to manufacture said dirt.
LAS14
(13,749 posts)4. Yes, that has been a flaw. nt
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. "It's about time": Needs more gerunds
It only took them 33 months. And I'd bet fully 60% of media outlets continue to watch closely for The Pivot from Trump.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)5. gerunds? gerunds?? How the heck does that apply? You haven't explained at all
Do you know what "gerund" means?
Did you proofread your post or do you autocorrect on autopilot?
Your post is very confusing.
Gerunds?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)6. "It's about time"
Should be "It's about fucking time." See how the addition of the gerund "fucking" makes the statement a little more forceful?
Hope that clears things up for you.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)7. OK, get your drift. But your modification of the phrase has introduced a participle, not a gerund.
(for accuracy)
(I didn't realize the exact distinction myself until I checked by looking it up)
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)8. The US media lost me years ago. No matter what they do I'll never come back to them.