8: Margaret Sullivan
Jen Rubin's Green Room
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The Flattening of Journalism
I get the sense, particularly now Trump was present, that reporters were hesitant to frankly say what they observed. I mean, if you sat through those press conferences or you attended these speeches, he was entirely incoherent. He was crazy sounding. He was raving. He was unhinged. Yet none of those descriptive words were used in the reporting itself. There was this effort to normalize him. Where do you think that came from?
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