Paul Krugman: A Lie Too Far?

[Fozzledick]

I suspect Donald Trump is feeling a bit sandbagged right now, or will be when he wakes up. All along he has treated the news media with contempt, and been rewarded with obsequious deference — his lies sugar-coated, described as “disputed” or “stretching the truth,” while every aspect of his opponent’s life is described as “raising questions” and “casting shadows”, despite lack of evidence that she did anything wrong.

If Greg Sargent and Norm Ornstein are to be believed (and they are!), the cable networks at least initially followed the same pattern in their response to DJT’s latest:



But the print media appear to have finally found their voice (which may shape cable coverage over time). The Times and the AP, in particular, have put out hard-hitting stories that present the essence in the lede, not in paragraph 25.

What’s so good about these stories? The fact that they are simple straightforward reporting.

First, confronted with obvious lies, they don’t pretend that the candidate said something less blatant, or do views differ on shape of planet — they simply say that what Trump said is untrue, and that his repetition of these falsehoods makes it clear that he was deliberately lying.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/a-lie-too-far/

[niyad]

1. I am afraid that it is too little and far too late, for them to start calling drumpfy out.

the media basically created this monster, and now they cannot control it. they already have blood on their hands for every single protestor who has been assaulted at one of his rallies. and blood will be on their hands for every assault, every incident with his supporters from now on, as well.

[RBInMaine]

4. It's nowhere near too late. Reach around back and feel for the spine. And go SMASH Trump.

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. Interesting article

and for once it's a pleasure to read the comments.

[unblock]

3. the only narrative the media knows with which to bring him down

is the narrative where they build him up first.

they don't know how to say a liar is a liar or a loser is a loser or a fascist is a fascist.

but they do know how to say aha! the guy who's going up in the polls isn't so great after all!


our media is sick, sick, sick, but sometimes it works out anyway.