{"id":36563,"date":"2024-09-07T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T22:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=36563"},"modified":"2024-09-07T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T22:13:08","slug":"from-rambling-to-rational-the-medias-trump-sanewashing-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=36563","title":{"rendered":"From Rambling to Rational: The Media\u2019s Trump Sanewashing Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/b01571ae3de8712c0310ebea85cc892897e1eb92.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"147\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The political press\u2019s efforts to rationalize Trump\u2019s incoherent statements are eroding our shared reality and threatening informed democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/185530\/media-criticism-trump-sanewashing-problem\">From Rambling to Rational: The Media\u2019s Trump Sanewashing Problem<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>facts are facts.  call out lies.  fact-check in real time.  don&#8217;t move on to next question until cuirrent one is answered.  none of this is unrealitilistic.  none is partisan.<br>articole has some clear exampe where media have sane-washed wht tfg is spewing.  and makes the pont that p[robs 80+% of the pop reads beyond these examples, never seeing the source material in its fullest.  watch the world salad about what he plkans to do to support child care and lowering its costs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trump-word-salad-on-how-to-make-child-care-affordable-2024-09-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trump-word-salad-on-how-to-make-child-care-affordable-2024-09-05-1024x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trump-word-salad-on-how-to-make-child-care-affordable-2024-09-05-1024x368.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trump-word-salad-on-how-to-make-child-care-affordable-2024-09-05-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trump-word-salad-on-how-to-make-child-care-affordable-2024-09-05-768x276.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trump-word-salad-on-how-to-make-child-care-affordable-2024-09-05-1536x552.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trump-word-salad-on-how-to-make-child-care-affordable-2024-09-05-750x270.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trump-word-salad-on-how-to-make-child-care-affordable-2024-09-05-1226x441.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trump-word-salad-on-how-to-make-child-care-affordable-2024-09-05-675x243.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trump-word-salad-on-how-to-make-child-care-affordable-2024-09-05.jpg 1824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Voters who rely solely on traditional news sources are presented with a version of Trump that bears little resemblance to reality. They see a former president who, while controversial, appears to operate within the bounds of normal political discourse\u2014or at worst, is breaking with it in some kind of refreshing manner.\u00a0<br>&#8230;<br>This analysis goes beyond mere sanitization; it ventures into the realm of the absurd. By framing Trump\u2019s incoherent ramblings as some form of avant-garde oratory, the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0isn\u2019t just failing to accurately report\u2014it\u2019s actively warping reality to its readers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political press\u2019s efforts to rationalize Trump\u2019s incoherent statements are eroding our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1226,72],"class_list":["post-36563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-media","tag-usa-usa-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36567,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36563\/revisions\/36567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}